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Second Life and Britishness

Paul Coletti | 12:43 UK time, Thursday, 25 January 2007

It's Britishness and Second life for tonight's talking points.

Can you teach Britishness? Should you teach it? And the phenomenon that is Second Life . . . do these folks seriously need to get a real life? Read on for more . . .

Britishness

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Can you actually teach something as abstract as citizenship? That's the recommendation of a new British government . Sir Keith Ajegbo defines Britishness as "the values that we hold very dear in Britain which is free speech, which is tolerance, which is respect for the rule of law." Is that it? Or do you think there's more to it?

Second Life
More and more people are signing up and increasingly parting with real dollars to convert into Linden dollars. Are they nuts or pioneers of a brave new world? If you don't know what I'm talking about then might help. correspondent certainly thinks we should be taking notice of SL.

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Diamonds . . . for a future programme
We're planning ahead for a future debate today as well. If you feel strongly about diamonds and the diamond industry then feel free to message us here on this blog.

Do you think the diamond industry is totally ethical? The director of the new film seems to think it has a problem and has attacked the industry for . The diamond industry has hit back with De Beers hiring stars of Hip Hop to go on fact-finding missions to Botswana. The World Diamond Council says barely 1% of diamonds today are so-called blood diamonds. Do you agree?

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