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 we should censor, but instinctively most people will be able…
Doing good things shouldn’t feel bad
Buddhist philosophy teaches that the true source of genuine, long-lasting happiness in this world is helping others. Be it by volunteering, donating to a charity, or just taking the time…
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 women and minorities. However, implementing positive discrimination is not the…
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 human being ought not to win an award for their…
Zero hour contracts: UK employment success is a fallacy
The government may be quick to boast of record-high employment levels over the past year, but in reality UK employment is more unstable than ever. The majority of jobs contributing…
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 from my own course. Science students, in particular, seem to…
There is no impartiality or accountability in modern news media
Every paper you glance at the front cover of, every article that’s shared on Facebook, every headline and every paragraph and every word is biased. Most sources of information no…
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 see a look of horror and disgust on the faces…
Why we shouldn’t swear by by-elections
When the results for the by-elections in Stoke and Copeland are announced on Thursday night, a festival of horse-race punditry will doubtless ensue in the media. It is always tempting…
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 dramatic overdose or a meth-fuelled altercation, no, but the number…
Posthumous pardons for gay men are not nearly enough reparation
Thousands of gay men have been pardoned posthumously for homosexual acts that are no longer crimes. This comes after the Policing and Crime Bill 2015-16 to 2016-17 received royal assent…
Why Aung San Suu Kyi has been silent on the Rohingya Crisis
Since an attack on a police checkpoint which left 9 people dead in October last year, the Burmese (Myanmar) military has begun a counter-terrorism operation in the western state of…
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 protest phenomena we find ourselves in now: protest against democratically…
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 new home was the prospect of attending my first ever…
Trump Inaugural Launches Post-Normal Presidency
It takes some bravado for a man who failed to win the popular vote by nearly three million votes, and who enters the White House with the lowest approval ratings…
The end of ‘the end of history’?
Francis Fukuyama’s now-infamous and much-derided proclamation of the victory of liberal democracy now lies in tatters. It is increasingly clear that the globalised economy has made many feel that liberalism…
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 of people. The reason I describe it as a wonderful…
The Absurdity of Modern Politics
It is fair to say that we are living in troubled times. Not only troubled though, they are becoming increasingly absurd, this absurdity personified by Donald Trump and his ridiculous…
Why the world will miss President Obama
In the midst of an election which has morphed into a farcical contest between ‘no change’ and backwards change, it’s hard not to wonder what happened to American progressivism. Eight…
Icelandic election shows politics at its best
Unless you have had your head buried in the sand for the last three months (and if you have, I can understand why!), you would have seen that the American…