IQ2 Quick Debate
By Intelligence Squared
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Podcast Description
Informal, lively debates from Intelligence Squared. Listen to both sides of the argument on the latest controversy to hit the headlines.
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Deepwater has been more political theatre than environmental catastophe | Quick debate on politician's responses to the BP oil spill | 8/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tony Hayward was right: the BP oil spill was a drop in the ocean | Quick debate on Tony Haywards remarks after the BP oil spill and the environmental effects. | 8/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Toy Story is Sexist | Toy Story has been a huge box office hit but some feminists have argued its sexist and reinforces gender stereotypes. This quick debate discusses the validity of this argument. | 8/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Riddance to Speed Cameras | Quick debate on the effectiveness of speed cameras. | 8/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pakistan is guilty of supporting terrorists and David Cameron was right to point it out | Quick debate between Professor Shaun Gregory, the Director of the Pakistan Security Research Unit and Dr Farzana Shaikh, Associate Fellow of the Asia Programme at Chatham House. | 8/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Britain is anti-semitic | Quick debate between Times and Spectator columnist Hugo Rifkind and prominent British lawyer and academic Anthony Julius. | 8/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bret Easton Ellis: Master Satirist or Yuppie Clone? | Quick debate between David Punter, Professor of History at the University of Bristol and Stephen Llano, Professor of Rhetoric and Debate and St John's University, New York. | 8/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Le Carre is seriously overrated | This debate involves Theo Tait (book reviewer for the London Review of Books and the Sunday Times) and popular spy writer Charles Cumming. | 7/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The rise of Australia’s “Hairy-legged femocrat” should dismay the liberal left everywhere | The once wildly popular Australian PM, Kevin Rudd, has been toppled by an internal Labor party rebellion, to be replaced by Julia Gillard, his Welsh born deputy, who becomes Australia’s first woman leader. Unmarried, proudly pro-abortion and happy not to shave her legs, there has been much joshing about the incongruity of such a Sheila taking charge in the land of hairy handed machismo. But more significant than her rise, in many ways, has been the fall of a man whose anti-fat cat, green agenda had inspired many on the left. Yet neither Rudd's emissions trading scheme, nor his retro-active 40% super-tax on mining, nor many other of his cherished schemes ever saw the light of day. Should the left rue the departure of an idealist, or welcome the more pragmatic Gillard, learning to recognise that in a capitalistic system there are limits to how far you can go in antagonising capitalists. | 7/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Retirement should become a thing of the past | Today’s middle aged workers could be the last to enjoy a leisurely retirement before their health declines – many believe that demographics and economics will force today’s young to toil on into their dotage. Should we, like the Greeks, take to the streets to fight this? | 7/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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We need deep public spending cuts now | Even George Osborne’s fiercest critics would have to admit he was between a rock and a hard place when he set out the new budget on June 22. Britain has its biggest fiscal deficit since WWII – and, according to May’s IMF forecasts, it faces the toughest recovery of all the G20 countries. No one doubts that austerity is needed to reduce the deficit. But it’s less clear whether it should come sooner or later, and how public spending cuts should be balanced with tax rises. | 6/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fashion is bad for us | This quick debate looks at the impact of fashion on out lives. | 6/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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South Africa will not win from this World Cup | This week's quick debate looks at the economic, social and sporting benefits of hosting the World Cup. | 6/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Israel’s flotilla attack was entirely justified | This weeks debate discusses the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara on the 31st of May. | 6/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Politics is sexist | When women are underrepresented across public life, could it be because they don’t want to be there or simply aren’t up to the jobs? And would any of us – male or female - really want to put more women at the Cabinet table if the result was worse government and the stigma of positive discrimination? | 5/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Obama’s foreign policy is good for America’s position in the world | This Debate of the Day was written to accompany our live debate "Obama's foreign policy is a gift to America's enemies", which took place in London on Thursday 27th May. The debate will be broadcast by BBC World News on Saturday 5th June at 09:10 and 21:10, and Sunday 6th June at 02:10 and 15:10 (all times in GMT). Video highlights are now available on the Intelligence Squared website where the full video will also be available on-demand from 5th June. For many on the liberal left who scorned George W Bush's gung-ho foreign policy, Barack Obama's more dovish, multilateral approach is far more likely to make headway. Ever since his inauguration, Obama has been offering an extended hand of friendship to America's enemies. But his detractors say that all he gets in return is a fist in the face. Is too much accommodation - to China, North Korea, Russia, Syria, Iran and others - just capitulation in another guise? Is Obama simply hastening American decline? | 5/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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“Drill Baby Drill” Must Stop | Sarah Palin was once asked whether oil drilling should be freed from its 40-year old environmental shackles. She replied: "The chant is 'drill, baby, drill'. And that's what we hear all across this country in our rallies because people are so hungry for those domestic sources of energy to be tapped into." Until the recent Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, which could be gushing out as much as 70,000 barrels of oil into the ocean every day, President Obama had seemed to be going along with that chant. But this calamity raises the question for all of humanity, not just the US legislature, of whether it is time to put a stop to the chant of "Drill, baby, drill", in deepwater environments. Is the Macondo spill, as BP boss Tony Hayward says, "just a drop in the ocean"? or will we trash our earth if we continue like this? | 5/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Powerpoint Corrupts | If PowerPoint was a drug, says Edward Tufte, a globally acknowledged expert in graphic communication, it would be subject to a "worldwide product recall". The program, he believes, is a hopeless and, indeed, a damaging communication tool which "routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content," making millions of people’s working lives less productive and efficient but also undermining our culture and even endangering lives. But can hundreds of millions of PowerPoint users really be so wrong? | 5/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A hung parliament would be hell | Intelligence Squared's Quick Debate is a For and Against analysis of the week's most hotly disputed public issue. This week's debate looks at the prospects of a hung parliament on the traditional two-party system. | 5/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Goldman sucks | Intelligence Squared's Quick Debate is a For and Against analysis of the week's most hotly disputed public issue. This week's debate looks at Goldman Sachs | 4/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 20 Episodes |
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