4th form politics

“WE SHOULD PERMIT THE USE OF PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS IN SPORT”

Debate guide - click on the hyper links to resources

For & against

http://sportsanddrugs.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002352

Most useful arguments for

BBC

Most useful arguments against

BBC

"FREE SPEECH IS NOT AN ABSOLUTE"

For & against

Debate: for & against
free speech arguments
for & against hate speech bans

Background

The development of free speech in Britain

For the motion

Freedom of speech must not mean freedom to abuse

the bookseller deserved his conviction for terrorism

uk free speech-vs us free speech more speech - not always the solution

Against the motion

Why should an insult be against the law

outrage culture limits free speech

my tram experience is shocking but should it be a cause for arrest

In depth

Britain needs more free speech

The limits of free speech

Motion 1

"THE UK SHOULD BAN SMACKING OF CHILDREN"

Ban smacking children...now

Parents should be free to smack

Smacking does no harm to children if they feel loved

Smacking should be illegal

Is smacking a good thing?

Should smacking be banned?

debate arguments - for & against

MOTION 2

“We should allow parents to use technology to ‘select’ the sex of their child”

Both sides

The sex selection debate: for & against

For & against

For

Sex selection shouldn't be illegal

Against

A feminist critque

Sex selection will damage the future

Two debates this week

1. This house would reintroduce corporal punishment into schools

Arguments for & against

BBC

idebate

Debate-wise arguments

Debate-wise arguments

2. This house believes that Premiership footballers deserve all the rewards they get.

General arguments

Do footballers get paid too much

Are footballers wages a moral issue
do footballers deserve 500,000 a week?
Debate.org Yes & No arguments 

For

Obscene wages for all

Against

It's footballers who need a good kicking

Football's excess

Should we abolish the monarchy?

"An unelected head of state should have no place in 21st century Britain“

Simple for & against arguments

Abolish the British Monarchy?
Should Britain scrap the Monarchy?

For

Monarchy spending should have been squeezed

we should cut off more than their handouts

goodbye to royalty

Against

Long live the Queen!

Gawd bless yer, Ma'am

The Queen's pearls of wisdom over 50 years

“people need protecting from violent lyrics, films & video games”

Simple for & against arguments

Newsround

US site ProCon

For

BBC article on game ratings

The link between games & violence

Does game violence make teens aggressive?

Against

I'm game for Grand theft auto...

Classifying the classifiers

Animal testing

Simple for & against arguments

Newsround
BBC ethics
Manchester Evening News
The Independent
ProCon.org

Arguments for the motion

Criticism of Animal Research at Imperial College London
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/michelle-thew/animal-research-imperial-college-london_b_4417511.html

Animal testing – its time to talk about it again
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/18/animal-testing-talk-about-medical-research

Animal Testing isn’t just an ethical problem – let’s invest in safer methods
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/12/animal-testing-safer-methods

So much animal pain, so little human gain
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article3354663.ece

All beings that feel pain deserve human rights

Arguments against the motion

Am I the only person who thinks that 4.1 million animals used in medical experiments

Don’t let the forces of unreason stop research

We all agree about Cosmetics but we still need animals for medicine

A Necessary Evil

The hard arguments about vivisection