You Decide
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Is online socialising as good as meeting?
The current lockdown has given rise to virtual parties, choirs, and reading groups – and they could become a permanent part of our lives. Is this a bad idea? What do you think? Discuss this...
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Is it wrong to make jokes during a crisis?
The pandemic – like many tragic and difficult situations throughout the centuries – has brought fear, but also inspired a tidal wave of humour. Is this bad taste? What do you think? Discuss this...
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Should we cancel the Olympics for ever?
The world’s biggest sporting event has now been postponed because of the pandemic – but some feel we would better off without it any way. What do you think? Discuss this week’s “You Decide” with...
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Are we responsible for our mental health?
During this eerie quarantine, experts have launched an appeal for us to look after our minds as well as our bodies. What do you think? Discuss this week’s “You Decide” with the rest of your...
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Will creativity flourish?
The BBC is launching a virtual festival called Culture in Quarantine. It thinks that as lockdowns come into force and people around the world face lonely weeks ahead, the stage is set for a huge...
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Can we defeat coronavirus?
The disease seems rampant and deadly. Yet governments are confident that it will beaten. What do you think? Discuss this week’s “You Decide” with the rest of your class and make your vote!
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Does positive thinking work?
The coronavirus epidemic is an enormous challenge for the whole world – but many people are saying we should focus on the rich benefits it might bring us. What do you think? Discuss this week’s...
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Can we learn from the plague classics?
As we enter the dark tunnel of the 2020 pandemic, we face hard questions. Some of our greatest writers have struggled with them before. Could that be useful? What do you think? Discuss this...
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Will the virus help bring us together?
Social distancing is the new normal as the pandemic takes over the world – but some people predict that, in other ways, we may become closer than ever. What do you think? Discuss this week’s...
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Should we take TikTok politics seriously?
One of the most successful apps in the world was developed for teenagers messing around. Now, it is being adopted by political campaigners. What do you think? Discuss this week’s “You Decide”...
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Is satire cruel?
There is a long tradition of ridiculing the famous and the powerful. It can help bring them down to Earth. But isn’t much of it also gratuitously cruel? What do you think? Discuss this week’s...
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Are experts better leaders than politicians?
As the virus emergency spreads, quietly confident experts, such as scientists and academics, are on the rise while populist politicians, such as Donald Trump, are floundering. Why not keep the...
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Could self-isolation have hidden blessings?
In the coming days, we face sweeping new rules confining us to our homes. But across the ages, many people have found solitude beneficial. What do you think? Discuss this week’s “You Decide”...
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Will women ever have equal rights?
“An equal world is an enabled world,” declared thousands around the globe as they took to the streets yesterday. But what do the hard statistics tell us? What do you think? Discuss this week’s...
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Is there a meaning to life?
The best-selling physicist Brian Greene has just published a new book arguing that human creativity gives life its ultimate meaning. What do you think? Discuss this week’s “You Decide” with the...