INDEPENDENT ONLINE — Nov 8 — Debating societies, art classes and poetry readings, all are thriving in the British capital as dating turns cerebral. Debates and poetry readings are fast becoming London's most romantic nights out. One entrepreneur acting on the trend is Ginny Greenwood, whose Futures Squared club aims at cash-rich, time-poor singles. Intelligence Squared was set up to make debating sexy. So far every debate they have organised, at the Royal Geographical Society, has sold out in advance. So cerebral daters out for rarefied seduction are treated to mind-stretching debates like "Better rough justice than another 9/11" and "The rise of China spells the decline of the West."
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