While James's handlers have said that proceeds from the show will go to charity, the debate within the debate of which team he should play for has raged, with critics complaining that the process has become unflatteringly self-indulgent.
Charity, charity, charity, Sophie!
Recently, he donated $1 million through his family charity to finance debate clubs in 14 high schools in Milwaukee.
The Bank isn't a charity or a debating club.
Labour left-wingers tried and failed to toughen a new charity law being debated in the last parliament, which let private schools in England and Wales continue with business as usual.
Appropriately hard to avoid, the debate surrounding charity fundraisers was also reported by Nick.
The charity was finding the debate around the word "spastic" a distraction.
The charity kickstarted a global debate in 2007 when it published a study which identified meat as a risk factor for a number of different forms of cancer.
"Given the huge challenges facing NATO, the choice of the next secretary general should not be about charity or a quota debate," said Pavol Demes, director of the Bratislava office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity SANE, said the debate was an "an important milestone on the journey to remove the stigma and misunderstanding that surrounds mental illness".
There has been much debate in the charity sector surrounding the transatlantic journey of the social media phenomenon #icebucketchallenge.
