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Should Black History Month be Abolished?

Yes William Cronk   African, Caribbean, and Asian history should form a large part of the history taught in schools…

Will Cronk 0October 16, 2017
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The Big Debate: Torture by the state can never be justified

For The definition of torture is ‘the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or…

Will Cronk 0October 3, 2017
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Big Debate: Do too many students go to university?

  Yes (Giles Goodwin): “It’s a good job that new humanities factory opened in Porthcawl” is my usual snarky response…

Will Cronk 0September 16, 2017
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The Big Debate: It is selfish to focus disproportionately on terror attacks in the West

Agree Devin Thomas In a world of increased connectedness and supposed solidarity, the fact that terror attacks that occur closer…

Devin Thomas 0April 12, 2017
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The Big Debate: Should media be sanitised to protect citizens?

Agree William Singh The classic problem with any motion containing words like “sanitised” is it’s almost impossible to argue that…

Georgia Grace 0April 5, 2017
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The Big Debate: Positive discrimination in employment is unfair

Agree Georgia Grace Undoubtedly we have a problem in this country with cisgender white men having greater employment opportunities than…

Devin Thomas 0March 21, 2017
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The Big Debate: We should separate the personal live of actors and artists from their creative work

In Favor William Singh When addressing this difficult subject, it is usually taken as the default position that a reprehensible…

William Singh 0March 15, 2017
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The Big Debate: Should degrees with higher funding demand higher tuition fees?

In Favor Libbie Bohlen As a humanities student, I am used to seeing my payments to the University redirected away…

Georgia Grace 0March 8, 2017
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The Big Debate: We need to privatise the NHS

In Favor Fraser Coppin When the words “privatization” and “NHS” are uttered in the same sentence, it’s not uncommon to…

Fraser Coppin 4March 1, 2017
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The Big Debate: Drug culture is a detriment to student life

Agree Rodnick Brugnara Every student at our University has had a night out completely ruined by drugs. Maybe not a…

Devin Thomas 0February 22, 2017
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The Big Debate: Should we protest the results of democracy?

Yes Georgia Grace The aftermath of the 2015 General Election may retrospectively be seen as the beginning of the current…

Georgia Grace 0February 15, 2017
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The Big Debate: The LGBTQ+ movement is now more about image than change

Agree Georgia Grace When I moved to Brighton last summer, one of the many things that excited me about my…

Devin Thomas 0February 8, 2017
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Big Debate: ‘Is globalism a failed project?’

Proposition Will Cronk Globalism is a wonderful force which does an extraordinary amount of good for an extraordinarily small number…

William Singh 0November 21, 2016
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The Big Debate: Should Bob Dylan have won the Nobel Prize?

Yes: Miles Fagge (Theatre Editor) I want to start this by stressing that I am not seeking to argue that…

William Singh 0October 24, 2016
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The Big Debate: student politics are frivolous

The Big Debate is a regular Badger feature which brings the spirit of competitive debating to the printed page. Two…

Freya Marshall Payne 0September 10, 2016
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Do history months promote recognition or exclusion?

This month is LGBTQ+ History month, and over twenty events are taking place at Sussex, making it the university’s biggest…

The Badger 0February 19, 2016
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The Big Debate: Should “Jihadi John” have been given a fair trial?

Yes Is bombing the hell out of an executioner really the ‘right thing to do’? An executioner only acts on…

The Badger 0November 24, 2015
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The Big Debate: Should the House of Lords be abolished?

Yes The House of Lords is the UK’s unelected second chamber. Before any legislation can become law in the UK…

The Badger 2November 12, 2015
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The Big Debate: Does viewing pornography corrupt our sexuality?

Yes For a start, I am not going to discuss this question by using the term ‘corrupt.’ This word carries…

The Badger 0November 5, 2015
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The Big Debate: Should grammar schools be abolished?

Yes   Should grammar schools be exterminated or expanded? EXTERMINATE! When I’m elected Prime Minister, on the biggest landslide result…

The Badger 0October 29, 2015

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