I thought I'd share this interesting debate I listened to earlier this week from BBC Radio 4.

Participants:

Michael Buerk - veteran BBC journalist

Anne McElvoy - journalist (The Economist and The Independent, author on East German history)

Melanie Phillips - journalist (a right-wing, Zionist loony, but she always makes debates more entertaining if nothing else)

Ash Sarkar - left-wing feminist and journalist (I can't entirely agree with Sarkar on everything, but she is one of the only truly leftist voices left in the mainstream British media)