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YES: Kelvin Hopkins has been Labour MP for Luton North since 1997. An economist by training, he is on the Left of the party. Most of his working life has been spent within the trade union movement, including five years at the Trades Union Congress. He is a champion of lifelong learning. During his early years he was a jazz musician.

Should Britain leave the European Union?

Kelvin Hopkins and Caroline Lucas go head to head on the question that will be put to British voters in a referendum in June.

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YES: Security researcher Meredith L Patterson co-founded the field of language-theoretic security in 2005. Her research examines how errors scale into systemic cascade failures. She is based in Brussels, Belgium.

Is social media doing social harm?

Meredith L Patterson and Deanna Zandt go head to head.

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YES - Simon Fairlie is a founding editor of The Land magazine and author of Meat: A Benign Extravagance (Permanent Publications and Chelsea Green 2010). He keeps dairy cows and pigs at a community in Dorset, England.

Can eating meat and dairy products be sustainable?

Simon Fairlie and James McWilliams go head to head.

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YES: Mathew Lawrence (left) is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, where he works on issues relating to political economy and democratic reform. His most recent publication was De-financialisation: a democratic reformation of finance (2014).

NO: Uri Gordon (right) is a lecturer in Political Theory at Loughborough University and co-convenor of the Anarchist Studies Network. An Israeli-born activist and academic, he authored Anarchy Alive!: Anti-authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory (Pluto Press, 2008).

Argument: If you care about climate change, should you have children?

Professor Anne Hendrixson and journalist Erica Gies go head to head.

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YES: David Hoile is an African scholar and consultant at the Africa Research Centre in London. He is also visiting professor at Sudan’s International University. His latest book Justice Denied: The Reality of the International Criminal Court, was published earlier this year by the Africa Research Centre.

NO: Angela Mudukuti is an international criminal justice project lawyer with the Southern Africa Litigation Centre, based in Johannesburg. Prior to this she worked at the International Criminal Court in The Hague and the International Institute for Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences in Italy.

Is the International Criminal Court racist?

David Hoile and Angela Mudukuti go head to head.

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YES: Nayna Patel is the medical director at Akanksha IVF Clinic, Anand, Gujarat, India. More than 825 surrogate babies have been born at her clinic. Her work has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show and on the BBC. She runs the Anand Surrogate Trust for the benefit of the surrogates and their families.

Is surrogacy a legitimate way out of poverty?

Doctors Nayna Patel and Mohan Rao go head to head.

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Is boycotting Israel the right way to fight for Palestinian rights?

Ilan Pappé and Norman Finkelstein analyze the pros and cons of the BDS movement.

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YES: Adam Ramsay is co-editor of OurKingdom, the UK section of openDemocracy, and author of the forthcoming ebook 42 reasons to support Scottish independence. Before this, he worked for student activist network People & Planet.

Would Scottish independence be good for radical politics?

Writer and activist Adam Ramsay and professor and author Jim Gallagher go head to head.

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Can plastic surgery be liberating?

Feminist blogger Danielle Leigh and filmmaker and former model Susan Hess Logeais go head to head.

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YES: Stephen D’Arcy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Huron University College, in Ontario, Canada. He is author of the book Languages of the Unheard: Why Militant Protest is Good for Democracy, and co-editor of the forthcoming book A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice.

Should halal and kosher methods of slaughter be banned?

Viva! campaigner Tony Wardle and social commentator Mohammed Ansar go head to head.

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YES: Barb Jacobson is co-ordinator of Basic Income UK. A former member of Wages for Housework, she has been active in community organizations since 1991, mainly around housing and health. She works for the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association in central London.

Should there be a basic income?

Basic Income UK co-ordinator Barb Jacobson and author and sociologist Francine Mestrum go head to head.

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YES: Kitty Stryker is a queer porn performer and lecturer on sex work, consent culture, and intersectionality in sex-positive spaces. Her written work can currently be found in Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Love, Life and Fashion, and Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks.

Is flying still beyond the pale?

Climate researcher Kevin Anderson and business adviser Brendan May go head to head.

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YES: Phil Leech lectures in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Liverpool. He is the founder and editor of globalisationcafe.com and a contributing editor for thinkir.co.uk

Is it time to junk the UN Security Council?

Lecturer and writer Phil Leech and researcher Richard Gowan go head to head.

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YES: MYRIAM FRANCOIS-CERRAH is a writer and academic with a focus on France and the Middle East. She writes for a variety of publications including The Guardian, the Huffington Post and Al Jazeera English. Currently a post-graduate researcher (DPhil) at Oxford University, focusing on Islamic movements in Morocco, she tutors in Middle East politics.

Argument: Has the Arab Spring failed?

Writer and academic Myriam Francois-Cerrah and journalist Noreen Sadik go head-to-head.

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YES: CHANTÉ JOSEPH is the Member of the Youth Parliament for Brent in northwest London, as well as regional secretary. She sits on the Youth Select Committee for transport and is a member of the London Youth Involvement Project. She is 17 and is studying for the International Baccalaureate.

Argument: Should 16-year-olds get the vote?

Politics academic Andrew Mycock and UK Youth Parliament member Chanté Joseph go head-to-head.

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NO: MATT CHRISTISON is a high school principal, sessional instructor in graduate studies at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and a lifelong questioner of the status quo. He earned a Doctorate of Education in 1996 from the University of Calgary, undertaking an analysis of gender performance differences on standardized testing.

Argument: Are exams bad for children?

Teachers Stephanie Schneider and Matt Christison go head-to-head.

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Action on Starbucks: Consumer power or homemade protest?Anthony Collins/Alamy

Argument: Can shopping be a form of activism?

Neal Lawson and Ruth Potts, both campaigners and writers, go head-to-head.

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Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title	From magazine	Publication date
Should Britain leave the European Union?	Technology justice	May, 2016
Is social media doing social harm?	Paris climate summit	November, 2015
Can eating meat and dairy products be sustainable?	Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion	June, 2015
Should voting be compulsory?	Total control - is Monsanto unstoppable?	April, 2015
Argument: If you care about climate change, should you have children?	The great green energy grab	March, 2015
Is the International Criminal Court racist?	NGOs - Do they help?	December, 2014
Is surrogacy a legitimate way out of poverty?	Big oil RIP?	November, 2014
Is boycotting Israel the right way to fight for Palestinian rights?	Cuba	October, 2014
Would Scottish independence be good for radical politics?	Gold trouble	September, 2014
Can plastic surgery be liberating?	Feminism fights back	July, 2014
Are riots good for democracy?	The politics of language loss	June, 2014
Should halal and kosher methods of slaughter be banned?	Organ trafficking	May, 2014
Should there be a basic income?	The war on whistleblowers	April, 2014
Can porn be ethical?	Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth	March, 2014
Is flying still beyond the pale?	Why are we locking up migrants?	January, 2014
Is it time to junk the UN Security Council?	Fracking - the gathering storm	December, 2013
Argument: Has the Arab Spring failed?	Where have all the girls gone?	October, 2013
Argument: Should 16-year-olds get the vote?	How the war on pirates became big business	September, 2013
Argument: Are exams bad for children?	Debt - a global scam	July, 2013
Argument: Can shopping be a form of activism?	Argentina's challenge	June, 2013

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Argument

Articles about Argument, ordered by date.

Kelvin Hopkins and Caroline Lucas go head to head on the question that will be put to British voters in a referendum in June.

Meredith L Patterson and Deanna Zandt go head to head.

Simon Fairlie and James McWilliams go head to head.

Mathew Lawrence and Uri Gordon go head to head.

Professor Anne Hendrixson and journalist Erica Gies go head to head.

David Hoile and Angela Mudukuti go head to head.

Doctors Nayna Patel and Mohan Rao go head to head.

Ilan Pappé and Norman Finkelstein analyze the pros and cons of the BDS movement.

Writer and activist Adam Ramsay and professor and author Jim Gallagher go head to head.

Feminist blogger Danielle Leigh and filmmaker and former model Susan Hess Logeais go head to head.

Professor and author Stephen D’Arcy and historian and journalist Vijay Prashad go head to head.

Viva! campaigner Tony Wardle and social commentator Mohammed Ansar go head to head.

Basic Income UK co-ordinator Barb Jacobson and author and sociologist Francine Mestrum go head to head.

Porn performer and lecturer Kitty Stryker and feminist writer and activist Louise Pennington go head to head.

Climate researcher Kevin Anderson and business adviser Brendan May go head to head.

Lecturer and writer Phil Leech and researcher Richard Gowan go head to head.

Writer and academic Myriam Francois-Cerrah and journalist Noreen Sadik go head-to-head.

Politics academic Andrew Mycock and UK Youth Parliament member Chanté Joseph go head-to-head.

Teachers Stephanie Schneider and Matt Christison go head-to-head.

Neal Lawson and Ruth Potts, both campaigners and writers, go head-to-head.

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