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  1. Jun 7

    154 to 73 - the noes have it: This House Believes the Western Model of Democracy is NOT Unsuitable for the Middle East

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  2. Jun 7

    Op. Jeremy Brown: For democracy to work in the Middle East, as elsewhere, there need to be institutions that people can trust

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  3. Jun 7

    Op. : There are only two kinds of government: democracy and dictatorship

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  4. Jun 7

    Prop.: We need to recognise that the problems in the Middle East seem unable to be solved by revolution, intervention, nor political evolution

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  5. Jun 7

    Prop. Deborah Jones: Democracy, we say, is the passage from physical to verbal abuse

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  6. Jun 7

    Op. The Hon Yehiel Bar: Let’s look at the many Muslims and Arabs who have decided to leave their state and move elsewhere. Where did they almost always go to? They almost always went to Western democracies. They knew what they wanted.

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    Jun 4

    Launching this Thursday, June 7th at Oxford University. Pre-Order:

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  8. Jun 5

    . on the expectation to be a success: You have to drown out the noise a little bit

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  9. Jun 5

    .: It kinda started as a weird revolt against the bands at the art school we were in. They were all very technically gifted but we wanted to express ourselves in a different way. I don’t know maybe we had an inferiority complex!

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  10. Jun 4

    All my life I’ve lived inside my head so now all I can do is come up with stories. They’re just there, some of them take hold. It’s a gravitational pull- these ideas, these images pop into my head. Whether I’ll get to make the films or not, only time will tell. - George Miller

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  11. Jun 4

    ‘All cinema feeds off the zeitgeist and I think people are starting to understand its potency- it’s in the air, and more films are being produced as a result of that feedback loop. People are really becoming aware of its importance’ - George Miller on female leads in Hollywood

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  12. Jun 4

    I was always interested in film. But I guess I was self taught in film making. There was no intention or opportunity to make films. It was an arrogant thing to make a feature film-that film was . It was by far the hardest film I’ve ever had to make. - George Miller

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  13. Jun 4

    ‘I always thought I had limitations as a journalist because a good journalist has to ruin someone’s day and I always struggled with that. That’s why I moved over to the business side.’ on his choice to focus on the business aspects of the media industry

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  14. Jun 4

    The risk of abuse is systemic. We become a captive audience... there is a direct channel to manipulate large and diverse groups of people in ways that are potentially hazardous. on the dangers of social media and its influence

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  15. Jun 4

    ‘Just as traditional media has been hit by the rise of social media, so too have the platforms of Facebook and Google lead to the rise of low quality and fake news’ , CEO of the FT group speaking out against social media

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  16. Jun 1

    . “There is a symbolic UN office in Kosovo still, because unfortunately we are still faced with Russia’s veto at the security council. I hope that, once we reach the agreement in coming months with Serbia, Russia will lift its veto and recognise Kosovo.”

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  17. Jun 1

    . “All UN missions are very complex. The Kosovo mission was very successful. We had our first democratic elections shortly afterward and established democratic institutions with which all communities have taken part.”

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  18. Jun 1

    . President of Kosovo: “Kosovo and Serbia have been through a century of hostility. Now is the right time, the right moment, with the right leadership and people to move forward and find a solution.”

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  19. May 31

    Joaquín Alumnia: Austerity is the consequence of wrongs.

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  20. May 31

    .: Europe has found itself not as the solution to the problem but as the problem itself. This was an avoidable situation.

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