But from the 1980s to the late 2000s demography retreated to the wings of public debate, a concern mostly of geeks and obsessives.
If they were right, it is hard to hang on to the idea that "conceptual clarity" is a goal of philosophical inquiry … Metaphilosophical issues hover in the wings of the debates over whether the content of an assertion varies from utterer to utterer and from audience to audience.
The big banks' wing of the debate displayed a fascinating degree of resistance to the notion that they receive large implicit taxpayer subsidies.
It seems too simplistic to suggest that all the antagonism has come from the nationalist wing of the debate although that is what Bradby, a former ITN royal reporter, suggested in a blog for the ITV website that was reprinted in the Daily Mail, a paper that has dubbed the SNP the "Seriously Nasty Party".
Ironically, Volcker's recent calls to restore the separation of federally insured commercial banks from risky investment banks/hedge funds have, in relation to the Obama administration, placed him on the far left-wing of acceptable debate on financial policy.
And no one in either party -- and that stretches to include Bernie Sanders on one wing of the debate and Rand Paul on the other -- is currently making the case for handing this war over to the international community as a whole, even though we are repeatedly told that countries as distant from us in interests and ideology as Russia and Iran wish ISIS gone.
Naturally, internal feuding is just what publication provoked, as the different wings of the party debated whether its recommendations would help, and whether any change was needed at all.Conservative activists dismiss the report as ideological surrender a call to abandon forthright, principled stances in favour of squishy centrism.
The evolution of insect wings has been a subject of debate.
Once again, the right wing had set the parameters of debate over immigration with Democrats' eager acquiescence.
One point of debate among the British wing was whether, for its second decade, it was right to proceed with a planned programme of relatively rapid expansion.
Labour could play to this sentiment, don the long trousers and join the grownup wing of the EU debate.
