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Written debates

Closing the gap

30 Jul 2010
Sunlight is the best disinfectant - let WikiLeaks shine on

30 Jul 2010
Gandhi was the saintly father of modern India

28 Jul 2010
Scandinavia is social Nirvana. Redistribution is the key to it

16 Jul 2010
Electoral reform is for anoraks - votes don’t matter whatever system you use

09 Jul 2010
Vote for AV

09 Jul 2010
Israel's flotilla attack was entirely justified

07 Jun 2010
Closing the gap

07 Jun 2010
Debate Transcript: Obama's foreign policy is a gift to America's enemies

05 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
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
Politicians' domestic lives are none of our business

29 Mar 2010
Lenin was just lucky

19 Mar 2010
Britain would be better off outside the EU

16 Mar 2010
The UN is no longer the guarantor of peace and freedom

09 Mar 2010
The Republicans need to play ball

03 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
The US should step back from its special relationship with Israel

10 Feb 2010
Tibet is better off in China

02 Feb 2010
Richard Nixon: Hero or villain?

02 Feb 2010
The US should stay in Haiti for as long as it takes

21 Jan 2010
Should sanctions on Burma be lifted?

19 Jan 2010
Pakistan should tackle the Taliban without the US

14 Jan 2010
Margaret Thatcher: Saviour or wrecker?

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

24 Dec 2009
Copenhagen is the wrong way to tackle climate change

07 Dec 2009
Overseas aid to Africa does more harm than good

25 Nov 2009
Can democracy survive in the Middle East?

23 Nov 2009
Can we tame the Russian Bear?

20 Nov 2009
Can we win the fight against climate change?

15 Nov 2009
Democracy is not for everyone

22 Oct 2009

Live debates

Free market capitalism has failed the former Soviet states

Filmed: 15 Jun 2010
Obama's foreign policy is a gift to America's enemies

Filmed: 27 May 2010
New Labour has failed

Filmed: 27 Nov 2003
The prophets of global warming are guilty of scaremongering

Filmed: 21 Feb 2009
The Channel is wider than the Atlantic

Filmed: 27 Feb 2003
America cannot succeed in Afghanistan/Pakistan

Filmed: 06 Oct 2009
The US should step back from its relationship with Israel

Filmed: 09 Feb 2010
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
America is to blame for Mexico's drug war

Filmed: 01 Dec 2009
Let's get rid of Scotland

Filmed: 17 Mar 2004
California is the First Failed State

Filmed: 19 Jan 2010
Islam is incompatible with democracy

Filmed: 18 May 2004
Maggie Thatcher saved Britain

Filmed: 02 Nov 2004
The European Union is now dying before our eyes

Filmed: 01 Mar 2006
A pre-emptive foreign policy is a recipe for disaster

Filmed: 13 Sep 2004
The best way we can help Africa is to leave it alone

Filmed: 04 Mar 2004
Let's keep Turkey out of Europe

Filmed: 22 Feb 2005
It's the journalists who have fouled politics

Filmed: 11 Oct 2005
The West must stay friends with the House of Saud

Filmed: 23 Mar 2005
Putin is the best hope for Russian liberalism

Filmed: 25 May 2005
Obama's economic policies are working effectively

Filmed: 16 Nov 2009
Pakistan: what next?

Filmed: 14 Jan 2010
State education is a comprehensive disaster

Filmed: 09 Oct 2003
Tyrants should be left free to tyrannise their own people

Filmed: 14 Sep 2005
Better rough justice than another 9/11

Filmed: 24 Nov 2005
The time to quit Iraq is now

Filmed: 17 Jan 2006
Global warming should be one of our top priorities

Filmed: 09 Feb 2006
The threat posed by Iran has been exaggerated

Filmed: 25 Apr 2006
We should bomb Iran before they get the bomb

Filmed: 22 Jan 2008
We should never negotiate with terrorists

Filmed: 03 Oct 2006
The threat to our civil liberties has been much exaggerated

Filmed: 19 Nov 2009
The Tory party is no longer conservative

Filmed: 24 Oct 2006
Tax the rich (more)

Filmed: 24 Jun 2008
Britain doesn't need Trident

Filmed: 20 Nov 2007
Our mission in Afghanistan is destined to fail

Filmed: 22 Feb 2007
Britain has failed Zimbabwe

Filmed: 19 Sep 2007
It is time to lift sanctions against Burma

Filmed: 02 Dec 2009
Georgia and Ukraine should be allowed to join NATO

Filmed: 25 Sep 2008
Free-market capitalism is so 20th century

Filmed: 29 Oct 2009
The American Empire is a force for good

Filmed: 30 Oct 2003
We were wrong to recognise Kosovo's independence

Filmed: 28 Oct 2008
The era of American dominance is over

Filmed: 12 Feb 2009
The future belongs to India, not China

Filmed: 12 May 2009
The future of parliamentary democracy in Britain

Filmed: 15 Jun 2009
The United Nations is terminally paralysed

Filmed: 22 Jan 2009
Democracy isn't for everyone

Filmed: 23 May 2007
America has lost its moral authority

Filmed: 29 Apr 2008
The future of Iraq

Filmed: 11 Dec 2007

Talks

Obama's foreign policy, with Philip Bobbitt and Stephen Walt

Filmed: 23 Jan 2010
War and terror with Philip Bobbitt

Filmed: 29 Apr 2008
The United States and the Middle East with Fouad Ajami

Filmed: 27 Apr 2010
Introduction: David Starkey on English history and English law

Filmed: 12 May 2010
Questions: David Starkey on English history and English law

Filmed: 12 May 2010
Talk: David Starkey on English history and English law

Filmed: 12 May 2010
David Starkey on English history and English law

Filmed: 06 May 2010
Changing attitudes to the electorate

Filmed: 20 Mar 2010
Parliament: reform or revolution?

Filmed: 30 Mar 2010
Phillip Blond on Red Tory

Filmed: 01 Apr 2010
George Friedman on Obama's foreign policy

Filmed: 26 Jan 2010
David Speedie and Shirley Williams on transatlantic relations

Filmed: 09 Oct 2009
Jacob Weisberg on the US and the Middle East

Filmed: 24 Mar 2010
Intelligence and Security with James Woolsey

Filmed: 14 Jan 2009
New rules of war with Hanson and Arquilla

Filmed: 19 Mar 2010
Hitchens and Service on Trotsky

Filmed: 28 Jul 2009
Brian Eno on the third millennium

Filmed: 15 Mar 2010
Mo Mowlam visits Maze Prison, Northern Ireland

Filmed: Jan 1998
One on one with Hillary Clinton

Filmed: 28 Jan 2010
Eleanor Roosevelt addresses the United Nations

Filmed: 28 Sep 1948
Aung San Suu Kyi on non-violence

Filmed: 1999
Peter Mandaville on the Swiss minaret ban

Filmed: Nov 2009
Jeffrey Sachs on economic governance

Filmed: 20 Oct 2009
Soft Despotism with Paul Rahe

Filmed: 19 Nov 2009
Imran Khan on government in Pakistan, and dealing with the Taliban

Filmed: 14 Jan 2009
Anatol Lieven on democracy in Pakistan and Britain

Filmed: 14 Jan 2010
Pakistan and the global war on terrorism

Filmed: 30 Jan 2008
What happened to pluralism in Kashmir?

Filmed:
An interview with Jaswant Singh (Part 2)

Filmed: 28 Aug 2009
An interview with Jaswant Singh (Part 1)

Filmed: 28 Aug 2009
Economic inequalities and Pakistan's Identity crisis

Filmed: 25 Nov 2009
Assessing Pakistan's proliferation risk

Filmed: Feb 2009
Jonathan Paris on the future of Pakistan

Filmed: 30 Apr 2009
Interview with General Sir David Richards

Filmed: Dec 2009
Afghanaid panel discussion

Filmed: 07 Oct 2009
Conversations with history – Tariq Ali

Filmed: Oct 2008
George Osborne on Conservative economic policy

Filmed: 08 Apr 2009
Camilla Cavendish on climate change and the government

Filmed: 25 Jan 2009
Francis Wheen's 'Strange Days Indeed'

Filmed: Dec 2009
Rethinking privacy in an age of disclosure and sharing

Filmed: 31 Oct 2009
Rethinking freedom in an illiberal age

Filmed: 31 Oct 2009
Simon Schama on Obama and the American future

Filmed: Jan 2009
Rajiv Chandrashekaran on Baghdad's Green Zone

Filmed: Jan 2009
Citizens and the State - The Crisis of Liberty

Filmed: 28 Feb 2009
Lord Kinnock on the 1984 Miners' Strike

Filmed: 12 Mar 2009
Simon Schama on Obama and villainising Bush

Filmed: May 2009
Dambisa Moyo on foreign aid, China and celebrity

Filmed: May 2009
Francis Beckett on the 1984 Miners' Strike

Filmed: 12 Mar 2009
David Cameron in conversation with Nassim Taleb

Filmed: 18 Aug 2009
Amitai Etzioni on the value of community

Filmed: 14 Jul 2009
Lord Hunt on the 1984 Miners' Strike

Filmed: 12 Mar 2009
Stephen Fry on North America, sexuality and intellectualism

Filmed: May 2009
Sir David Frost on the Nixon interview and comparisons with Bush

Filmed: May 2009
Sarah Harper on global population ageing

Filmed: Oct 2008
Lord Patten on Chinese Hong Kong

Filmed: May 2009
The Big Ask

Filmed:

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