Glasgow Ancients 2026

1. Round 1THO the commodification of Scottish culturePractise this motion
2. Round 2THR NATO existing after the dissolution of USSRPractise this motion
3. Round 3THO the rise of validation culturePractise this motion
4. Round 4THO Jordan's crackdown on the Muslim BrotherhoodPractise this motion
5. Round 5THP a world where polytheism remained the most common form of religionPractise this motion
6. SemifinalsTHBT the glorification of masculinity does more harm than good to menPractise this motion
7. Grand FinalTHO the pursuit of maximum convenience in modern life.Practise this motion

1. Round 1This House Supports the US Democratic Party prioritising the nomination, at all levels of government, of candidates who favour more radical changes to existing policies and structures over more moderate candidates.Practise this motion
2. Round 2This House Would allow authors to make legally binding declarations prohibiting some or all of their unpublished works from being published posthumously.Practise this motion
3. Round 3This House Prefers a World where ECOWAS follows the doctrine of effective control.Practise this motion
4. Round 4This House Hopes that the next Pope is Cardinal Tagle rather than Cardinal Ambongo.Practise this motion
5. Round 5This House Opposes the shift away from deep global economic integration towards protectionism (e.g. increased tariffs, subsidies for domestic companies, etc.).Practise this motion
6. SemifinalsThis House Regrets the use of ‘right to privacy’ arguments to advance social causes (e.g. abortion rights, LGBT rights).Practise this motion
7. Grand FinalThis House Believes That the entity to which the AI is ultimately answerable ought to be a jury of randomly selected ordinary people rather than a panel of the three most intelligent moral philosophers in the world.Practise this motion

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1. Round 1THR the rise of finfluencersPractise this motion
2. Round 2This house hopes for the message to confirm the existence of a deterministic universePractise this motion
3. Round 3THP a world without professional interpretations of art (e.g. art critics, tastemakers, gallery label descriptions etc.)Practise this motion
4. Round 4THO New AtheismPractise this motion
5. Round 5THP a world in which postcolonial African states had prioritised achieving economic and land reparations (e.g. active land redistribution, quotas, cash transfer programmes) over enshrining civil and political rights (e.g. rights to protest, vote, free speech, form associations, etc.)Practise this motion
6. SemifinalsTHBT the Two-Pillar Solution will do more harm than goodPractise this motion
7. Grand FinalTHS the use of necro-resistance as a form of protestPractise this motion

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1. Round 1THP individualist feminism to social feminismPractise this motion
2. Round 2THR these amendments made to the Children's fiction.Practise this motion
3. Round 3TH, as an aspiring porn artist would focus on creating solo-cam porn career over entering the traditional porn industry.Practise this motion
4. Round 4In times of significant instability in financial markets, THS partially state funded bank mergers.Practise this motion
5. Round 5THBT professionals and disability activists should heavily prioritize the practices and narratives derived from the medical as opposed to the social model.Practise this motion
6. SemifinalsTHS the existance of Hospital XPractise this motion
7. Grand FinalThis House Would Abolish the British MonarchyPractise this motion

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1. Round 1THW abolish grades in elementary/primary schoolsPractise this motion
2. Round 2THBT companies should adopt the practice of Radical TransparencyPractise this motion
3. Round 3THS the use of capital controls by developing economiesPractise this motion
4. Round 4This house supports first generation immigrants to Western Europe encouraging their children to fully assimilate and identify with the local culturePractise this motion
5. Round 5THBT social media has done more harm than goodPractise this motion
6. SemifinalsTHBT countries transitioning to democracy should implement a "Pact of Forgetting"Practise this motion
7. Grand FinalTHW NOT publish this informationPractise this motion

Open the Glasgow Ancients 2022 prep page