SOCIETY: DEBATING PAUL S. skilled statesmen of the future, with few outlets to demonstrate their command of the spoken word. A laborious existence lay ahead, a dull school made that much more drab for the want of gavels crashing and of polemicists abusing the English language to gain that ever-important swing. Fortunately, salvation lay just on the horizon. With the memory of the better days moving their hands, Hugo Rompani and Benedict Coneybeare refounded the once-great institution, to great effect. The first debate of the new age took place on the 20th of November 2018, and had the motion: This House Would Abolish Grammar Schools.� Quickly gaining traction and attendance, the debates began to cover diverse topics such as Brexit, the death penalty, and drugs. The more prolific speakers of this first term
The debating society can consider itself to be one of the most prolific student-run groups in the school. With a prestigious history dating back to 1879, the society is as strong as ever, continuing to develop talented public speakers and to put on diverting and relevant debates. After the society folded in 2015, the future looked uneasy for the wave of driven and 19
