You Should Be Proud To Be Patriotic | Jonathan Freedland | Oxford Union
November 27, 2013
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as posted by the channelJonathan Freedland argues for the motion that 'This House is Proud to be Patriotic'.
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Jonathan Freedland says the opposition has been indulging in "Daily Mail logic" Should we do away with candles as, in extreme cases, they can result in a "house being burnt down"? Or perhaps, he further questions, we ought to abolish social democracy in case it leads to communism? The 2008 winner of the David Watt Prize for Journalism insists that the opposition is incongruously "hijacking" the meaning of the term 'patriotism'.
Filmed on Thursday 14th November 2013
MOTION: This House is Proud To Be Patriotic
RESULT: Defeated.
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ABOUT JONATHAN FREEDLAND:
Jonathan Saul Freedland is a British journalist, who writes a weekly column for The Guardian and a monthly piece for The Jewish Chronicle. He is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, and presents BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series, The Long View.He was named 'Columnist of the Year' in the 2002 What the Papers Say awards and in 2008 was awarded the David Watt Prize for Journalism, in recognition of his essay 'Bush's Amazing Achievement', published in The New York Review of Books. Freedland also writes best-selling thrillers under the pseudonym Sam Bourne.
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The Union is the world's most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford. It has been established for 190 years, aiming to promote debate and discussion not just in Oxford University, but across the globe.
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