Whether you want to see a Debating Matters debate for the first time, introduce the format to someone new, or you’re just hankering after even more fantastic debates on today’s big issues, in these videos you can see Debating Matters at its best. Thanks go to WORLDwrite, the education charity, for helping us to produce these films, to Andy Lovatt for the testimonials, and to C1 Photography for creating our video about why debating matters.
Debating Matters at Battle of Ideas festival 2024
Watch Debating Matters at the Battle of Ideas festival 2024
Students at Debating Matters House of Lords Championship 2025 on why debating matters and their experience of the day.
Interviews by Omar Loubak Mohammed and filming by Ella Dorn.
TESTIMONIALS from students, judges, teachers and alumni of the competition.
For more testimonials on why Debating Matters is so important, see our Why Debating Matters playlist on YouTube.
WHY DEBATING MATTERS
DEBATING MATTERS ONLINE
DEBATING MATTERS BEYOND BARS
DEBATING MATTERS BERLIN
Since 2015, we’ve been working with our partners in Berlin to host an annual DM event there. Here’s a look at our first championship.
WATCH OUR DEBATES
Get a feel for our format watching debates we’ve filmed including: the Debating Matters UK final on alcohol pricing, and other debates on terrorism and civil liberties, copyright, assisted dying and whether Wikileaks is good for democracy?.
Our Debating Matters India debates were also filmed and live-streamed including this debate on clinical trials.
Alcohol pricing
Terrorism and civil liberties
Copyright
Assisted dying
Is Wikileaks good for democracy?
DM India: Clinical trials