Intelligent Debate Lost As Picket Line Heckling Returned ; Letters to the Editor

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AS A member of the audience at the coal debate at the Potteries Museum, I thought I would take the opportunity to write to The Sentinel.

The event kicked off with enthusiastic and warmhearted comments from the chair, Oliver Speight, looking for the proceeding debate to be "open, honest and timemanaged so as to get as many questions raised as possible", but in the end I feel it was poorly chaired.

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Intelligent Debate Lost As Picket Line Heckling Returned ; Letters to the Editor

Fierce and passionate debate there certainly was, but this tended to be from a handful of the audience, who ended up hijacking the debate.

There were only four or five questions tabled t...

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