Eschewing the usual convoluted language of Marxist debates, he provides a gripping account of communism's intellectual origins, pedigree and impact.

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History has shown that many people remember presidential debates more for body language and one-liners than for carefully crafted policy positions.

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Beethoven admired England for its House of Commons, and he followed parliamentary debates reported in German-language newspapers.

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Regardless of your political affiliation, the presidential debates gave us a great platform for observing what body language and speaking styles can do to create impressions.

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In Westminster Hall there are two general debates - one on the 30th anniversary of the Welsh-language TV broadcaster S4C, and one on the military justice system.

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This is because those rarefied debates on the break-up of Britain are invariably conducted in the grandiloquent language of national destiny and constitutional architecture.

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