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Written debates

Scandinavia is social Nirvana. Redistribution is the key to it

16 Jul 2010
The West should worry about Turkey's turn to the East

09 Jul 2010
Debate transcript: Free market capitalism has failed the former Soviet states

03 Jul 2010
Free market capitalism has failed the former Soviet states

29 Jun 2010
The French have no right to be proud of their World War II resistance

18 Jun 2010
The English Civil War was a revolution

17 May 2010
The Westphalian nation state has had its day

20 Apr 2010
The Congress of Vienna solved nothing and led straight to World War I

20 Apr 2010
Field Marshal Haig and the WWI generals were donkeys leading lions

20 Apr 2010
Pope Pius XII was Hitler's pope

31 Mar 2010
Lenin was just lucky

19 Mar 2010
Britain would be better off outside the EU

16 Mar 2010
Debate Transcript: Europe is failing its Muslims

06 Mar 2010
Europe is failing its Muslims

05 Mar 2010
The crisis in Greece shows it's time to bury the euro

24 Feb 2010
Britain needs a written constitution

18 Feb 2010
Nato has had its day

18 Feb 2010
The Second World War was the consequence of the Treaty of Versailles

15 Feb 2010
Britain needs school vouchers

08 Feb 2010
The Elgin Marbles should be returned to Greece

19 Jan 2010
We should ban the burqa

19 Jan 2010
Margaret Thatcher: Saviour or wrecker?

07 Jan 2010
Britain should legalise assisted suicide

24 Dec 2009
Amanda Knox should never have been convicted

15 Dec 2009
The West should foot the bill for tackling Climate Change

10 Dec 2009
We should applaud the Swiss minaret ban

03 Dec 2009
All is not fair in sport and war

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

23 Nov 2009
Napoleon Bonaparte: Hero or monster?

20 Nov 2009
Churchill: Hero or human being?

22 Oct 2009

Live debates

Free market capitalism has failed the former Soviet states

Filmed: 15 Jun 2010
Britain will thrive outside the euro

Filmed: 19 Nov 2002
Introduction: Britain will thrive outside the Euro

Filmed: 03 Jun 2010
Final vote: Britain will thrive outside the euro

Filmed: 03 Jun 2010
Summations: Britain will thrive outside the euro

Filmed: 03 Jun 2010
Questions: Britain will thrive outside the euro

Filmed: 03 Jun 2010
The euro undermines democracy

Filmed: 03 Jun 2010
The euro is the logical next step

Filmed: 03 Jun 2010
The euro brings impoverishment

Filmed: 03 Jun 2010
The euro will increase Britain’s influence

Filmed: 03 Jun 2010
The Channel is wider than the Atlantic

Filmed: 27 Feb 2003
There is no need for a referendum

Filmed: 15 Jan 2010
The government promised the referendum

Filmed: 15 Jan 2010
Accept the Lisbon Treaty to increase the EU's efficiency

Filmed: 15 Jan 2010
The Lisbon Treaty marks a new departure

Filmed: 15 Jan 2010
The Lisbon Treaty needs to support European cooperation

Filmed: 15 Jan 2010
Accepting the treaty without a referendum would be dishonest

Filmed: 15 Jan 2010
Introduction: Britain needs a referendum on the EU treaty

Filmed: 15 Jan 2010
Britain needs a referendum on the EU Treaty

Filmed: 05 Mar 2008
Let's get rid of Scotland

Filmed: 17 Mar 2004
GM crops are good for us

Filmed: 22 Jan 2004
Europe is failing its Muslims

Filmed: 23 Feb 2010
The European Union is now dying before our eyes

Filmed: 01 Mar 2006
Let's keep Turkey out of Europe

Filmed: 22 Feb 2005
The West is provoking a new Cold War with Russia

Filmed: 18 Mar 2008
Georgia and Ukraine should be allowed to join NATO

Filmed: 25 Sep 2008
Clive James on Florence

Filmed: 28 Jan 2009
We were wrong to recognise Kosovo's independence

Filmed: 28 Oct 2008
Churchill was a liability to the free world

Filmed: 03 Sep 2009
The superiority of Western values

Filmed: 09 Oct 2007

Talks

Simon Schama on social tension in Europe

Filmed: 27 May 2010
Frances Stonor Saunders on Violet Gibson and Mussolini

Filmed: 17 May 2010
Violence & Left in Dark Times

Filmed: 16 Sep 2008
Tom Stoppard on his play Rock 'n' Roll

Filmed: 2008
George Friedman on Obama's foreign policy

Filmed: 26 Jan 2010
Father Patrick Desbois in conversation with Paul LeClerc

Filmed: 03 Mar 2009
In Defence of World War Two

Filmed: 09 Jul 2008
Hitchens and Service on Trotsky

Filmed: 28 Jul 2009
Alan Rusbridger on the future of newspapers

Filmed: Jan 2008
Thomas Hirschhorn on the Bijlmer Spinoza Festival

Filmed: Oct 2009
Tariq Ramadan on Islam as a European Religion

Filmed: Mar 2007
Amr Khaled on European Muslims

Filmed: 10 May 2008
Tariq Ramadan on The Western Muslim

Filmed: Mar 2007
Douglas Murray on Multiculturalism

Filmed: 10 Jun 2009
Douglas Murray on Muslim Immigration into Europe

Filmed: 03 Mar 2008
Edward N Luttwak on 'The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire'

Filmed: 08 Feb 2010
The world with Václav Klaus

Filmed: 06 Nov 2009
Max Hastings on Finest Years

Filmed: Dec 2009
Colm Tóibín on the Net Book Agreement and being an author

Filmed: Apr 2009
David Starkey on historians and film adaptions

Filmed: May 2009
Antony Worall Thompson on fish, food and politics

Filmed: May 2009

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