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This House would make fines relative to income

10 Sep 2012

Most countries impose fines rather than jail sentences for low-level criminal offences. (Often, much larger fines are used alongside jail sentences for ‘...

This House would subsidise poor communities

11 Apr 2012

A subsidy is a form of government assistance to a group or economic sector. A direct subsidy usually means that taxpayers’ money is used to help support...

This house supports the idea of participatory democracy

2 Mar 2012

The ideal of participatory democracy is to give ordinary citizens the possibility of participating in the public decision-making. The very idea of democracy...

This House would introduce a system of universal healthcare

21 Feb 2012

On March 23rd 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, an act the New York Times calls “the most...

This House believes that hate crime 'enhancements' are unjust

20 Feb 2012

A hate crime is a crime, usually violent, motivated by prejudice or intolerance toward a member of a gender, racial, religious, or social group. In this...

This House supports a progressive tax rate

17 Feb 2012

Progressive taxation is a fiscal policy system in which wealthier people pay larger proportions of their earnings in taxes than do less well-off people....

This house supports selective education

26 Jan 2012

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Selection can take various forms but for the purpose of this debate it means the overt selection by ability, usually on the basis of a test. This usually...

Animals

13 Sep 2011

The claim that animals have 'rights' was first put forward by the Australian philosopher Peter Singer in the 1970s and has been the subject of heated...

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