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| 28th November 2010 Is enough being done for LGBT rights? listen | |
| 21st November 2010 Do we play fair with asylum seekers? listen | |
| 14th November 2010 NUS Protest debate: the listeners take over! listen | |
| 7th November 2010 Nicola Sturgeon: Deputy First Minister listen | |
| 23rd May 2010 To AV or not to AV listen | |
| 21st March 2010 Afghanistan Conflict listen | |
| older Debate is Free episodes | |
Want news with a bit of bite? Want to be informed? Want to cut out all the 24 hour news mince and get the news as it should be with out all the spin? Then Debate is free is the show for you.
Every show brings you the top topics of the week in the UK and the wider world and gives you the complex issues of the day in a way you can understand. It helps that we are less boring than your usual political talkshows scattered across the TV and radio schedules.
Each week, we will have our special guest where you set the questions and get the answers you want. So tune in and join in even if it's only arguing with your flatmate once the shows done.
Get in contact with the show on debate@subcity.org if you want to comment or to suggest a guest for us to invite on the show.
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is enough being done for lgbt rights?
Debate is Free // 28.11.10 // Is enough being done for LGBT rights?
This week we will be taking a look at LGBT rights after a UN resolution was amended 79 votes to 70 to remove references to sexual orientation on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. Simply put it means that there can be little protection for those who are threatened with execution due to their sexual orientation. In the US a survey of over 7000 trans people found 41% had attempted suicide all this after several students killed themselves after taunts for being gay earlier this year. The question is have we done enough for LGBT rights? If not where do we go from here?
Remember email in to debate@subcity.org or get in touch via Twitter and Facebook.
Posted at 21:36, 22nd November 2010
do we play fair with asylum seekers?
Debate is Free // 21.11.10 // Do we play fair with asylum seekers?
It seems to be the burning question on the DiF lines this week as it was revealed that the UK Borders Agency had canceled its contract to house asylum seekers with Glasgow City Council. It's caused some consternation out there with lots of you raging at lack of notice and the wording of letters being sent to those waiting on decisions on their asylum applications. Many families face being uprooted from the communities where they have made their homes and having to find new schools for their children.
A fair few of you wanted this to be this weeks topic so we bumped health, (again!). And duly followed your wishes listeners. What we want to know is do we play fair with asylum seekers? Some come from backgrounds we can't even imagine and are vulnerable and need support. Are we giving them a raw deal? Or is it a case of the needs of the majority outweigh the needs of the few?
Anne McLaughlin MSP: a politician who has been at the forefront of this debate with the Florence and Precious Mhango case will be joining us in the studio and we should hopefully have a feature from the Scottish Refugee Council and some case stories for you on the show this Sunday.
Remember email in to debate@subcity.org or get in touch via Twitter and Facebook.
Posted at 11:42, 18th November 2010
student protests special (busiest show evar!)
Debate is Free // 14.11.10 // NUS Protest debate: the listeners take over!
This show is busy. I am knackered now I hope you know after performing gymnastics in the Subcity Studio with phone calls, texts and emails coming in. Aside from all that woot but jeezo thats hard work.
Current affairs bods Gemma who was our reporter down in London for Demo 2010 and James Humphries resident hardcore lefty.
We speak to Aaron Porter of NUS UK as well as Liam Burns of NUS Scotland as well as read out a whole bunch of comments and phone calls from listeners. Ooft.
Gie it a listen and then hit us up on the email at debate@subcity.org, on Twitter and Facebook.
Posted at 11:42, 14th November 2010
deputy first minister: nicola sturgeon
Debate is Free // 07.11.10 // Nicola Sturgeon: Deputy First Minister
In our first show of the year Debate is Free is coming back with a bang with an interview with Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. The DiF email inbox, Facebook fan page and Twitter feed is already jumping with everyone and their dug wanting their questions to go forward in our time with the minister so hurry and get them in.
Its the usual way to submit a question just email, check out the fanpage or tweet on Twitter.
Remember politics affects everything!
Posted at 10:58, 4th November 2010
the war in afghanistan
Debate is Free // 21.03.10 // Afghanistan Conflict
After the major conference hosted by the University of Glasgow this week regarding the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. Dr Alex Marshall, current convenor of the War Studies Centre based at the University of Glasgow will be joining us in the studio this Sunday to discuss the issues that currently face Afghanisation now and in the future.
The conference itself discussed how much progress was being made by US President Obama's troop surge, problems facing the coalition in Afghanistan and the growing drug manufacture problem in Afghanistan.
Listen from 0945 to 1030 and send in your questions and comments to debate@subcity.org.
You can watch some the discussions that took place during the conference here. Please note this is very bandwith intensive.
You may also be interested in an interview Professor Marc Genest, who was one of the key note speakers at the conference gave on Newsnight Scotland on Monday night.
Posted at 15:12, 17th March 2010