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Debate: June 21, 2005

The Sixties weren't the beginning of sex but the end of civilisation
Spring 2005 Series

Intelligence² audience confirms 333 to 319 votes against the motion.
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Event Information:
The debate took place at: Royal Geographical Society, Ondaatje Theatre.
Doors opened at 6:00 pm. The debate started at 6:45 pm and finished at 8:30 pm.
Speakers for the motion:

Professor Laurie Taylor Professor of Sociology, University of York. Author and broadcaster.

Howard Jacobson Author, critic and broadcaster whose latest novel is entitled "The Act of Love".

Leonie Frieda Translator, historian and biographer whose books include the biography of Catherine de Medici.
Speakers against the motion:

Christopher Booker A weekly Columnist in the Sunday Telegraph and author of "The Great Deception: The Secret History of the European Union" and "The Seven Basic Plots: Why we tell stories". He was the founding editor of Private Eye, to which he still contributes.

Rosie Boycott Former Fleet Street editor, author and founder of Spare Rib. She has recorded her new life as a smallholder in the book "Spotted Pigs and Green Tomatoes: A Year in the Life of Our Farm" and has been appointed the capital's "food champion" by the Mayor of London.

Claire Fox Director of the Institute of Ideas, a panellist on BBC Radio 4's 'The Moral Maze' and comments on developments in culture, education and the media on TV and radio.
Chair:

Joan Bakewell Journalist and broadcaster.
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