Yet for all the front-page attention, angry debate and exchanges before the justices, some of the more fundamental elements of the case have been little reported.
Even now, the information society is creating social networks, giving rise to new cultural experiences, producing sites for political debate and exchanges of view.
It cannot function without adherence to protocols of debate and exchange.
But there will be no place for this sort of debate and exchange at next year's festival.
These are the kinds of issues that the founders of the Cultural and Scientific Association, a public-private group devoted to promoting Emirati culture, take up every Monday night, when they gather to debate and exchange ideas.
"The focus will be, as Mrs Thatcher would have wanted, on a living centre that concentrates on training and debate and exchange programmes, while the exhibition side will be really very much secondary," says Burns, who became a friend of Thatcher later in her life.
Delegates will be taken through the project, which the Association of Chief Police Officers is considering including in its long-awaited hate crime manual as an example of good practice; then a debate and exchange of information will be followed by the handing out of a 'Bolton toolkit' to help get similar schemes under way elsewhere.
The purpose of a university is to engage in dialogue, debate, and exchange ideas in order to try and come to some meaningful conclusion about an issue at hand.
While this tactic may help in raising his ratings, Trump has turned what is supposed to be a platform for serious political debate and exchange of ideas, into entertainment akin to a reality show, where anything goes and the more outrageous the comments or acts, the higher the ratings.
By contrast the highly multi- and interdisciplinary literature relating to public responses to wind power development has generated significant debate and exchange of ideas, enabling it to evolve relatively quickly.
Face-to-face workshops and short-courses can be valuable given the opportunity they provide for discussion, debate, and exchange of ideas, but are resource-intensive and rely on the availability of participants and faculty with dedicated time to commit to such purposes [ 6].
