"This isn't a discussion that is playing out at the moment.
It is a discussion that is long needed and happening at a very wide level.
Why do they come to Hay? "Because it provides an opportunity for discussion that is much more free-flowing and responsive than Westminster allows".
We cannot rely on traditional freedoms and there should be a collectively richer discussion that is promoted in an intelligent way".
But the kind of intelligent and engaged discussion that is taking place on the Guardian blog and others is, I hope, the mark of a sea-change.
We have one meeting for every show, and the discussion that is initiated at the drop-off often carries through the hanging and the reception of the show".
"Conference ought to be the place where there is open discussion – that is the whole function of it," he told Sky News.
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(On Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m., Mr. Gaillard will participate in a discussion that is being presented as part of MoMA PS1's Sunday Sessions series).
This is the nub of a discussion that is simmering beneath the surface of British politics, but has yet to graduate into a full-on national debate.
But in the airless space for discussion that is contemporary China, neither Mr. Chen nor Mr. Liu is a suitable topic for debate.
