{"id":2282,"date":"2016-04-28T12:38:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:10:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T21:10:36","slug":"this-house-believes-we-should-leave-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/this-house-believes-we-should-leave-the-european-union\/","title":{"rendered":"This House Believes We Should Leave the European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ben Cobley\/\u00a0Hugo Dixon\/\u00a0Katrin Flikschuh\/\u00a0Gerard Lyons<\/span><!--more--><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/publiclecturesandevents\/20160427_1830_thisHouseBelievesWeShouldLeaveTheEuropeanUnion.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the podcast<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers for the motion<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/afreeleftblog.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Cobley<\/a><\/span>, Writer and Political Blogger<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/people\/mayoral\/gerard-lyons\" target=\"_blank\">Gerard Lyons<\/a><\/span>, Chief Economic Advisor to the Mayor of London<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers against the motion<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/infacts.org\/author\/hugo_dixon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hugo Dixon<\/a><\/span>, Columnist and Author of <em>The In\/Out Question<\/em>; Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of <em>InFacts<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/government\/whosWho\/Academic%20profiles\/kaflikschuh@lseacuk\/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Katrin Flikschuh<\/a><\/span>, Professor of Political Theory\u00a0(LSE)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/danielle-sands\/\" target=\"_blank\">Danielle Sands<\/a><\/span>, Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On June 23, voters in the will make a decision regarding their willingness to share or pool some of the UK&#8217;s sovereignty with the twenty-seven other member states of the European Union. This special event, held as part of the Forum\u2019s 20th anniversary, will consider a motion to change the status quo. We will have two teams of speakers, one speaking for the proposition (Gerard Lyons and Ben Cobley), the other against (Hugo Dixon and Katrin Flikschuh).<\/p>\n<p>Image credit:\u00a0Nicolas Raymond, &#8216;<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/freestock.ca\/flags_maps_g80-european_union_grunge_flag_p1027.html\" target=\"_blank\">EU Grunge Flag<\/a><\/span>&#8216;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Cobley\/\u00a0Hugo Dixon\/\u00a0Katrin Flikschuh\/\u00a0Gerard Lyons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":1994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[24,20],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-philosophyofeurope","tag-politicalphilosophy"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2016\/03\/europe-forum-20.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-AO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12954,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/12954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}