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The DURHAM UNION EPIPHANY TERM 2018 TERM CARD EPIPHANY 2018 1 OUROUR MANIFESTOMANIFESTO 11.. Welcome So here we are, 176 years after the first our A Team reached the quarter-finals in the meeting of the Durham Union Society, World University Debating Championships. RIPRIP UPUP and it is now my honour to welcome you all back to what I hope will be a Getting involved in the running of the Union, thought-provoking Epiphany Term which, whether it be as a student debater, as a member by challenging existing perspectives and of the Union’s General Committee or as an beliefs, will serve to widen the horizons of officer or standing member, is an exceptional all the Union’s members. way to enhance your CV, meet lots of interesting THE people and gain an insight into how one of the THE This term will see motions debated with subject oldest student societies in the world operates. content ranging from Mother Teresa to Russia and from Brexit to feminism. These debates will The Union has been enhancing the lives and be substantiated by varied addresses featuring, experiences of Durham students for the last RULERULE among others, MPs from different political 176 years and together with your support and persuasions, an Ambassador, a mental health enthusiasm I look forward to guiding it through its campaigner and the founder of UKIP. Our first next chapter. debate will focus on whether the Union believes that borders should be a thing of the past, while Very best wishes, Richard Tice will deliver our first address on the BOOKBOOK subject of the EU referendum. IfIf youyou nevernever gogo againstagainst thethe grain,grain, alwaysalways followfollow thethe well-troddenwell-trodden pathpath andand consistentlyconsistently take Our line-up of speakers this term will include thethe safesafe option,option, youyou couldcould findfind yourselfyourself sleepwalkingsleepwalking intointo aa predictablepredictable career with a traditional former Shadow Chancellor Peter Lilley, Nirj Deva Jack Gilmore firm.firm. IfIf that’sthat’s howhow youyou seesee youryour future,future, wewe wishwish you every success. But please look away now. MEP, Dr Joanna Williams, Chair of the London President, Epiphany 2018 IfIf youyou preferprefer thethe boldbold toto thethe boring,boring, however,however, andand findfind thethe prospectprospect ofof joiningjoining aa different kind assembly Jennette Arnold and businessman ofof lawlaw firmfirm enticing,enticing, we’dwe’d lovelove toto talktalk toto you.you. We want to break the mould, rewrite the rules and Martin Ainscough CBE. redefineredefine thethe legallegal profession.profession. YourYour missionmission couldcould bebe toto buildbuild thethe lawlaw firm of the future, today. AndAnd toto definedefine youryour careercareer atat thethe samesame time. The Epiphany Term must also rise to the challenges of building on the foundations set in ReadRead thethe fullfull manifestomanifesto andand findfind outout moremore atat Michaelmas Term. To this end we will continue the RPC.CO.UK/MANIFESTORPC.CO.UK/MANIFESTO recent trend of hosting more social events than in previous years; this will include an Epiphany Welcome Social and also special themed socials highlighting the Winter Olympics and others. The Union also boasts one of the world’s great student debating programmes for those who enjoy competitive debating. Indeed, only recently THETHE LAWLAW CAREERCAREER FORFOR PIONEERS 2 DURHAM UNION EPIPHANY 2018 3 5780_RPC_Manifesto_210x148.indd5780_RPC_Manifesto_210x148.indd 11 01/08/2012 14:57 Events Calendar Debates Addresses Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 st Borders Should be a 1 Thing of the Past Debating Chamber, 8.30pm 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 nd Richard Tice Foreign Aid is a 2 Union Chamber, Waste of Money Pemberton Buildings 8.30pm Debating Chamber, 8.30pm 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 rd Professor Alan Sked Brexit 3 Union Chamber, Debating Chamber, 8.30pm Pemberton Buildings 8.30pm 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 th Low Tax Society 4 Debating Chamber, 8.30pm 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 th Mr Kristof Feminism Has Lost 5 Szalay-Bobrovniczky Its Way Union Chamber, Debating Chamber, 8.30pm Pemberton Buildings 8.30pm 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 th New Labour is Dead 6 Debating Chamber, 8.30pm 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 th Mother Teresa’s Legacy 7 was One of Good Debating Chamber, 8.30pm 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 th Iain Paisley Jr MP Russia is a Threat 8 Union Chamber, to the West Pemberton Buildings 8.30pm Debating Chamber, 8.30pm 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 th Farewell Debate 9 Debating Chamber, 8.30pm 4 DURHAM UNION EPIPHANY 2018 5 THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THIS HOUSE BELIEVES Borders Should Be a Foreign Aid is a Thing of the Past Waste of Money th Friday 19th January Friday 26 January 8:30pm, Debating Chamber, Palace Green 8:30pm, Debating Chamber, Palace Green Full Debate, Sponsored by Bond Dickinson Full Debate Laurie Macfarlane Economics Editor of Open Democracy. Nirj Deva MEP Conservative MEP for South East England. Professor Eleanor Spaventa Professor and Director of Gender and Diversity at Nerissa Chesterfield Durham Law School. Communications Officer for the Institute of Economic Affairs. Roger Casale Former Labour MP for Wimbledon from 1997-2005 Philip Smith and Chair of ‘New Europeans.’ Chief Executive of the Friends of the British Overseas Territories. Andrew Withers PROPOSITION Chairman of the Libertarian Party UK. OPPOSITION Tobias Andersson OPPOSITION PROPOSITION National President of Young Swedes Iain Stewart MP Conservative MP for Milton Keynes South Simon Clarke MP Conservative MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland. James Dobson Senior Researcher of the liberal-conservative think tank Bright Blue Ben Harris-Quinney Chairman of The Bow Group and former foreign policy TBC advisor to multiple Governments. Rory Broomfield Director of The Freedom Institute. 6 DURHAM UNION EPIPHANY 2018 7 THIS HOUSE THIS HOUSE BELIEVES Regrets Brexit In a Low Tax Society Friday 2nd February Friday 9th February 8:30pm, Debating Chamber, Palace Green 8:30pm, Debating Chamber, Palace Green Full Debate 8:30pm, DebatingFull Chamber, Debate Palace Green Professor Brendan Simms Professor of the history of international relations at the University of Cambridge. Godfrey Bloom Former UKIP MEP and author of The Magic of Banking. Anna Soubry MP Conservative MP for Broxtowe and former Minister of State for Small Business. Martin Ainscough CBE Former Chairman of Ainscough Vanguard. Lord Adonis Labour peer and former Chair of the National Infrastructure Commission. TBC TBC PROPOSITION OPPOSITION OPPOSITION PROPOSITION Peter Lilley Peter Grant MP Former Secretary of State for Social Security, former Shadow SNP MP for Glenrothes. Chancellor and former Conservative MP for Hitchen and Harpenden. Steven Woolfe EP Leonie Cooper Member of the European Parliament for North West London Assembly member for Merton and Wandsworth. England and former Migration Spokesman for UKIP. Andrew Rosindell MP Dr Onkar Sahota Conservative MP for Romford and International Director of London Assembly member for Ealing and Hillingdon the European Foundation . James Delingpole Writer, jounalist and columnist who has written for publications including The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph and 8 DURHAM UNION The Daily Express. EPIPHANY 2018 9 THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THIS HOUSE BELIEVES Feminism Has Lost Its Way New Labour is Dead rd Friday 16th February Friday 23 February 8:30pm, Debating Chamber, Palace Green 8:30pm, Debating Chamber, Palace Green Full Debate Full Debate Dr Joanna Williams Chris Williamson MP Academic, education editor of Spiked and author Labour MP for Derby North and Shadow Minister of Women vs feminism. for Fire and Emergency Services. Madeleine Grant Jennette Arnold AM Digital Officer of the Institute of Economic Affairs. Chair of the London Assembly and Assembly Member representing Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest. PROPOSITION PROPOSITION OPPOSITION OPPOSITION Vicky Pryce Graham Stringer MP Economist and author of Why women need Quotas. Labour MP for Blackley and Broughton.. Hannah Brown Dr Martin Edobor Vice President of the Durham Intersectional feminist society and Former Chair of the Young Fabians and President of Josephine Butler College Feminist Society. Associate Director of the New Century Institute. 10 DURHAM UNION EPIPHANY 2018 11 THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THIS HOUSE BELIEVES Mother Teresa’s Legacy Russia is a Threat was One of Good to the West th Friday 2nd March Friday 9 March 8:30pm, Debating Chamber, Palace Green 8:30pm, Debating Chamber, Palace Green Full Debate Full Debate Gautum Lewis John Spellar MP Founder of ‘Freedom in the air’ who was raised Labour MP for Warley. in one of Mother Teresa’s orphanages. PROPOSITION Conor Burns MP TBC Conservative MP for Bournemouth West and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary PROPOSITION OPPOSITION OPPOSITION Peter Cave Victoria Friedman Philosopher, author, speaker, lecturer, and Assistant Editor of Breitbart London Patron of Humanists UK. Aroup Chatterjee TBC Physician and author of Mother Teresa – The Untold Story. 12 DURHAM UNION EPIPHANY 2018 13 Addresses Daniel Kawczynski MP Mr Kawczynski has been the Conservative Professor Alan Sked MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham since winning it from Labour in 2005. He is Professor Alan Sked founded the United the first ever British MP to be born in Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in Poland and, during his time in Parliament 1993, and he was the party’s first leader, he has sat on both the International from then until 1997. Sked has since distanced himself from the party, and Development Select Committee and the founded the New Deal political party Justice Select Committee and has been a in 2013, serving as its leader until 2015. vociferous voice in support of the Saudi Sked is also Emeritus Professor of History Arabian Government. He will address the at the London School of Economics. Union on his journey from an immigrant to a British Member of Parliament.