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		<title>Calling all budding writers!</title>
		<link>http://debatingsociety.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/calling-all-budding-writers/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fancy writing for the debating blog? You can write about and argue about whatever you like. Keep it topical and make sure it&#8217;s something others would be interested in! If you&#8217;re interested e-mail debating@guild.bham.ac.uk
Otherwise check out the rest of the site!
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		<title>This Is The News&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the News drinking game:
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		<title>&#8220;I Should Have The Choice To Buy Traditional Lightbulbs&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently new regulations have meant traditional lightbulbs can no longer be imported into the UK with many (well, one or two who were interviewed on the streets by BBC News) complaining they should have the choice to buy traditional lightbulbs. Choice eh?
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		<title>Rankings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to BritishDebate.com Birmingham are 11th in the European University Debating Rankings. This means we&#8217;re higher than our local rivals Warick and also, amongst many others, Bristol, MIT, Yale, Harvard, Cardiff, Newcastle and Edinburgh.
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		<title>The Economic Argument&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of arguments, whether in social policy or politics, emphasise the economic rational for making a change. Think of the economic impact of divorce or flexible working. But is the economic argument always the most effective?
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		<title>Times/Herbert Smith Advocacy Competiton</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[University is a time where students can figure out who they are and how they do things, without the worry that a simple mistake will result in them being fired. Whilst I appreciate that should alter the way I view some people&#8217;s attempts in the Times Herbert Smith Competition I am still left feeling slightly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debatingsociety.wordpress.com&blog=3548802&post=450&subd=debatingsociety&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Go To University?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many go to University not because they want to go into academia but because they have some other career aspiration that their degree helps them towards. Many want to go on to help people &#8211; through becoming involved in human rights, charities or politics. This ambition can be lost along the way though because of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debatingsociety.wordpress.com&blog=3548802&post=443&subd=debatingsociety&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exams &#8211; There Must Be A Better Way</title>
		<link>http://debatingsociety.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/exams-there-must-be-a-better-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do exams really test what we know and can do? Or do they just test to see if we can do exams?
There will be jobs that we&#8217;ll go into where we need to know how to work under pressure, how to apply our knowledge and how to structure our arguments. These are skills tested by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debatingsociety.wordpress.com&blog=3548802&post=439&subd=debatingsociety&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Solve A Problem Like The BNP?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 11:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many recent political debates normally refer to people&#8217;s &#8216;fear&#8217; of the BNP being voted into office or why they think the BNP is &#8216;wrong&#8217;. Whether or not the BNP, or any organisation or person, is &#8216;wrong&#8217; is an individual&#8217;s opinion. The problem with recent debates though is that the the thrust of some people&#8217;s arguments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debatingsociety.wordpress.com&blog=3548802&post=436&subd=debatingsociety&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ticket-Issue Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 15:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawyers are reportedly discontent with government plans to extend the system of on-the-spot fines and Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) for criminal offences. However, is the criticism justified?
The measures were originally intended to increase the efficient administration of criminal justice. Fines were imposed in order to deal with small-scale offending, such as drunken behaviour experienced in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debatingsociety.wordpress.com&blog=3548802&post=433&subd=debatingsociety&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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