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Written debates

Hands off the BBC – our last great public institution

20 Aug 2010
Peter Mandelson is the best thing that ever happened to Labour

16 Jul 2010
Vote for AV

09 Jul 2010
Retirement should become a thing of the past

02 Jul 2010
Osborne's budget wasn't fair

25 Jun 2010
We need deep public spending cuts now

21 Jun 2010
British politics are lamentably sexist

28 May 2010
Hung parliaments are hell

04 May 2010
Attention, world! Britain still matters

27 Apr 2010
Away with the Lords - Britain needs an elected second chamber

23 Apr 2010
Britain needs proportional representation

22 Apr 2010
Britain would be better off outside the EU

16 Mar 2010
Britain needs a written constitution

18 Feb 2010
Britain needs school vouchers

08 Feb 2010
We should ban the burqa

19 Jan 2010
Britain should adopt Sweden's "school choice" system

24 Dec 2009
Britain should legalise assisted suicide

24 Dec 2009
Faith Schools are good for Britain

25 Nov 2009
Central funding for the NHS should be replaced with a social insurance scheme

23 Nov 2009

Live debates

This House would rescind the UK invitation to the Pope

Filmed: 05 Jun 2010

Audio only
Britain will thrive outside the euro

Filmed: 19 Nov 2002

1 hr 29 min
New Labour has failed

Filmed: 27 Nov 2003

1 hr 49 min
Britain needs a referendum on the EU Treaty

Filmed: 05 Mar 2008

49 min 20 sec
Maggie Thatcher saved Britain

Filmed: 02 Nov 2004

1 hr 48 min
The NHS is broken, it needs reinventing

Filmed: 05 Oct 2004

1 hr 45 min
It's the journalists who have fouled politics

Filmed: 11 Oct 2005

1 hr 46 min
Public schools are a blight on British society

Filmed: 03 Feb 2010

1 hr 49 min
State education is a comprehensive disaster

Filmed: 09 Oct 2003

1 hr 48 min
Too many people go to university

Filmed: 30 Jan 2007

1 hr 40 min
The threat to our civil liberties has been much exaggerated

Filmed: 19 Nov 2009

1 hr 46 min
The Tory party is no longer conservative

Filmed: 24 Oct 2006

1 hr 46 min
Tax the rich (more)

Filmed: 24 Jun 2008

1 hr 52 min
Britain doesn't need Trident

Filmed: 20 Nov 2007

1 hr 40 min
Heathrow needs a third runway

Filmed: 01 Oct 2008

1 hr 44 min
The future of parliamentary democracy in Britain

Filmed: 15 Jun 2009

1 hr 33 mins
All schools should select their own pupils

Filmed: 26 Feb 2006

1 hr 58 min

Talks

Changing attitudes to the electorate

Filmed: 20 Mar 2010

34 min 46 sec
Parliament: reform or revolution?

Filmed: 30 Mar 2010

41 min 47 sec
Phillip Blond on Red Tory

Filmed: 01 Apr 2010

22 min 37 sec
Polly Toynbee and David Walker on greed and inequality in Britain

Filmed: 04 Sep 2008

12 min 5 sec
David Lammy on the value of higher education

Filmed: 24 Jun 2009

38 min 57 sec
Carmen Callil on literature, justice, and the Old Bailey, at 5x15

Filmed: 22 Feb 2010

15 min 8 sec
Mo Mowlam visits Maze Prison, Northern Ireland

Filmed: Jan 1998

4 min 11 sec
George Osborne on Conservative economic policy

Filmed: 08 Apr 2009

29 min 7 sec
Citizens and the State - The Crisis of Liberty

Filmed: 28 Feb 2009

1 hr 15 min
Geoffrey Crossick's response on the value of higher education

Filmed: 24 Jun 2009

14 min 34 sec
David Cameron in conversation with Nassim Taleb

Filmed: 18 Aug 2009

30 min 11 sec
Michael Gove on education and its reform

Filmed: 30 Jun 2009

34 min 14 sec

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