Motions

Grand Final

  • This house believes that the United States will experience a fiscal crisis in the 21st century.
  • Semifinals

  • This house would allow the creation of identity-group only spaces even where other groups excluded are on the basis of protected attributes (e.g. a woman only rideshare app that excludes trans-women, a mother's only career development event which excludes non-mothers)
  • Round 5

  • This house believes that, in post-conflict societies, governments should actively attempt to recruit insurgents and militia into the army instead of trying to quash them
  • Round 4

  • This house prefers a largely-Protestant society to a largely-Catholic society
  • Round 3

  • This house believes that the founding of Anthropic has been good for AI safety
  • Round 2

  • This house opposes the link between art and status* *The idea that people's interactions with art (including its consumption, production and their beliefs about art) are linked to their status. Different forms of art, and different ways of interacting with art, may signal higher or lower status.
  • Round 1

  • This house, as a major European football club, would adopt a 'first-team coach' structure rather than a 'dominant manager' structure.