With It's Good 2 Talk

Why debate

A debate is two sides disagreeing in public, on purpose, with rules that keep it civil and a clock that gives everyone their turn. It is one of the few places left where people argue properly and still shake hands.

Thirty days of that, in one room, is a fair advertisement for the simple thing our charity partner exists to say: talking helps. Not only about motions and points of order — about the harder things people put off raising.

It's Good 2 Talk is the charity partner for the attempt. Their programmes and the wellbeing arrangements for participants will be published here as they are confirmed.

Looking after the people doing it

A month of round-the-clock debating asks a lot of the people on the benches. Rest is built into the rules — five minutes earned for every full hour, nobody seated more than eight hours at a stretch, an hour off before returning — and the welfare arrangements around that are being worked out with It's Good 2 Talk before anyone is asked to commit.