Past events

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Date	Event
12/02/2026	Collaboration with the SUMS Society.
16/04/2026	THB that Feminism is Incompatible with Christianity.
19/03/2026	Collaboration with the St Andrews' LibDem Society
12/03/2026	Collaboration with the BUTE Medical Society.
26/02/2026	Panel on the Trump Administration.
19/02/2026	THBT Relationships with AI should be Normalised.
05/02/2026	THBT Dying for Romantic Love is Justified.
29/01/2026	THBT Germany should have Stayed Divided.
27/11/2025	Christmas Debate: THW unionise the Elves.
16/10/2025	Rapid Fire Debate!
30/10/2025	THB Reform will win the next general election.
09/10/2025	Panel on the Exploration of Oil
	Ought Capital Punishments to be Abolished?
	Was King Charles I legally dethroned?
	Is a monorchichal or republican form of government the better?
	Was the conduct of Queen Elizabeth towards Queen Mary justifiable?
	Ought the Corn Laws to be Abolished?
	Are Ossians poems authentic?
	Is a state of celibacy or marriage the preferable?
	Has the Reform Bill had a beneficial or prejudicial tendency to the general interests of the country?
	Was Cardinal Beatons death justifiable?
	Is Utility the ground of Moral obligation?
	Ought the Catholic Emancipation bill to have been passed?
	Was Prince Charles claim to the British throne justifiable?
	Whether is Logic or Rhetoric the most persuasive mode of reasoning?
	Is Language of Human or Divine origin?
	Does love refine or debase the Moral feeling?
	Whether was Wallace or Bruce the greater Champion?
	Would it be conducive for the greater extension of knowledge to adopt the Bell system of teaching in parochial schools?
	Do Novels repay the time spent in reading them?
	Ought the Income Tax to have been imposed?
	Is there more pleasure in the pursuit or the possession of knowledge?
	Should ladies be allowed to graduate at Universities as M.A.?
	Do the reform demonstrations that have lately taken place indicate the true state of feeling in the nation?
	Ought education to be compulsory?
	Is beauty in the object or the mind?
	Is a man's character to a greater degree innate or acquired?
	Is early rising or late sitting the more favourable for study?
	Is wealth or extent of territory the true indication of national strength?
	Is it more difficult to attain a position of eminence now than it was a century ago?
	Ought the franchise to be extended?
	Has miscellaneous reading a prejudicial tendency on the mind?
	Ought Darwin to be encouraged in his speculations?
	Is the earth a globe or a plain?
	Ought the restrictions on the degree of B.A. to be abolished?
	Is British Philosophy tending towards Rationalism or Idealism?
	Has Bunyan or Milton displayed the greater [uncertain: force/power] of imagination?
	Is the principle of Total abstinence to be commended?
	Is the establishment of a Gymnasium in St Andrews desirable?
	Should there be a chair of elocution in St Andrews?
	Is reason confined to man?
20/11/2025	THS Replacing the UK's Welfare State with UBI.
13/11/2025	THB That the Internet is to Blame for the Male Loneliness Epidemic.
06/11/2025	Ought the Government Have the Right to Interfere in Education - Throwback Debate from 1866.
02/10/2025	THO the Rise of Tradwife Influencers.
25/09/2025	THR the Sanitisation of Children's Literature.
18/09/2025	THW Legalise Psychedelics.
11/09/2025	This House has No Confidence in HM Government.
16/04/2025	THR the Narrative of the Suffering Artist.
12/09/2024	This House Has No Confidence in His Majesty’s Government.
27/03/2025	THR the Influence of Religion on Education.