Success That Speaks For Itself
Debating at Dulwich is at an all-time high, with speakers triumphing at national and international level. What is the secret of our success? Raffy Marshall (Year 12) and Arnav Kapur (Year 13) report on Dulwich’s powerhouse of polemic. I f you are a regular visitor to MyDulwich or the College website, you cannot have failed to notice that Dulwich debaters have gone from recently, as part of ‘Team England’, Louis and Will beat Australia in The Old Parkland Debates 2014 competition, held in Dallas, Texas. Their outstanding performance when proposing the motion ‘This house believes that, when in conflict, global human rights trump national sovereignty’ saw them unanimously declared the winners. Sayeqa Islam, the Dulwich team’s coach, has good strength to strength this year. Indeed, their success has been quite extraordinary, with victory in no less than seven national finals, including the most prestigious UK Debating Competitions. Louis Collier and Will Cook (both Year 13) won the Oxford and Cambridge Schools’ tournaments (with over 700 teams competing from around the world), while Raffy Marshall and Ronan Patrick (both Year 12) won the Durham Schools’ Debating Competition and the England Mace Final. Most reason to be proud: ‘We make up half of the England national team; we have won more competitions than most other schools combined; and we continue to have up and comers from a young age,’ she notes. ‘The difference at Dulwich is we
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