Positions

This position believes that the police are the standard bearers of law and order. Limited government is fundamental to protect individual liberty. Strong police are required to protect limited government. Whether institutional racism is real, or a myth, focusing on the role of the police is both misleading and counterproductive.

This position believes that the coercive power of the the police has grown too far. The role of the police is to protect individual freedom, but police today now threaten this, more than they uphold it. The force has co-opted longstanding racial tensions in America to expand its own power. It is essentially corrupt and powers must be curbed.

This position believes that institutional racism is insidious because it is intangible. The police are an exploitative state tool for oppression. Without a total re-imagining of social security, we cannot have meaningful change.

Never before has a presidential administration so brazenly altered facts and propagated misinformation to portray themselves in a favourable light.

Any decision to remove controversial statues should reflect the voters' opinions. For this reason, it is best to allow states to make this decision independently.

Space has been the attention of humankind for centuries. Yet discoveries that expand our understanding of space have been few and far between. There hasn’t been enough money to fund expensive equipment that may or may not work. The money would be better spent on what the earth needs opposed to faraway planets and stars.

Trump put the rise of China under the microscope and will forever be remembered as the president that took an adversarial view of the second-largest economy.

This framing holds that taking down controversial statues redresses long-standing injustice. It argues one cannot oppose racism without acting to redress it, that the moment forces a reckoning with racism, and that statues themselves allow no nuanced debate.

This position frames the toppling of controversial UK statues as an 'iconoclasm of the woke'. It argues that destroying history is reductive and unproductive — casting the movement as cancel culture, a juvenile reading of history, and part of a wider assault on Western civilisation.

This is not a fight about history. Nor one about injustice. The battleground here is the nation, and how it is being systematically undermined by a vigilante mob. If we give in to this brutish idealism, we lose our most precious possession: Britishness.

Although slavery was a horrific institution, it is a part of our history. We must preserve reminders of our past, trusting that "those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." The historical figures facing this backlash were not completely evil and efforts to remove their statues are led by angry, violent, and irrational mobs.

These monuments support white supremacy and racial terror. They propagate a false version of our nation's history by romanticizing slavery, the Confederacy, and colonialism.

This position holds that controversial UK statues should be re-imagined rather than simply venerated or torn down. It seeks a more productive path that neither honours the evils some statues represent nor encourages a vigilante culture of destruction — reframing what they stand for.

This position holds that 'winner-takes-all' is the best voting system, giving all of a region's representation to the candidate with the most votes. It argues this is the most efficient, straightforward method, avoiding the complications of ranked-choice or approval voting.

Space is a subject that the world has only a small understanding of. There are many theories about what exists in space, but only a few have been proven. Perhaps if space was successfully explored in its entirety, scientists could uncover new planets and stars that could potentially be used to the Earth's advantage.

2020 has been a year filled with events that signal that we are undergoing a global transformation. This includes realising truths about how the world in which we live is governed, the disregard for and abuse of certain lives, and the greater responsibility we have to take care of our planet Earth.

Although 2020 may stand out in future memories and in history books, there is nothing particularly spectacular about it. The collision of numerous issues all at once is a matter of coincidence not the product of a great awakening of humanity. The year 2020 will be memorable for its repeated negative occurrences on a global scale, not for fueling a new world order.

This position catalogues the case against 5G deployment in the US. It argues that 5G will require expensive new devices that older networks cannot serve, and that its costly, city-first rollout would widen the digital divide, leaving rural and low-income communities further behind.

This position catalogues the case for 5G deployment in the US. It argues that 5G is far faster than 4G with greater capacity and lower latency, and that this leap would unlock advanced technologies — from self-driving cars to smart infrastructure and connected industry.

The emotional 808s and Heartbreak marked a sudden change in direction for West. Though its reception was mixed at the time, its influence proves its status as Kanye West's best album.

This position holds that a balance between working from home and the office is best. It argues that a hybrid arrangement combines the strengths of both — the focus and flexibility of home with the collaboration of the office — creating the most productive environment for employees.

This position reframes cultural appropriation as cultural appreciation. It argues that borrowing aspects of another culture is a sign of respect rather than theft, since the wish to emulate a culture is fundamentally a compliment to it, reflecting genuine admiration.

This position holds that a minimum wage is ineffective at reducing poverty. It argues such laws benefit neither workers nor businesses—raising unemployment, driving up inflation, failing to keep pace with rising prices, and doing nothing to tackle underemployment.

This position holds that what happened at Chernobyl was a nuclear accident. It argues a catastrophic explosion resulted from a combination of failures—a flawed reactor design, an unsafe test conducted by operators, and Soviet officials who neglected basic safety standards.

Israelis and Palestinians must be united under a single, binational state. Both Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs would enjoy the same legal and civil rights and live under a government in which both religions are represented.

This position attributes Labour's 2019 defeat less to its own failings than to a strong Conservative showing. It argues that Labour's vote share was comparable to previous elections, and that the Tories won by ditching austerity and running on a streamlined, focused manifesto.

There must be two separate, independent states, one Israeli and one Palestinian, each with its own government and full autonomy over its domestic and international affairs.

A COVID-19 vaccine will reduce the risks of contagion and lives will go back to a pre-pandemic normality. Social distancing will no longer be necessary and people will return to the office.