A Call to Order

Okay, so there’s blood on the floor. The bottles have been smashed, the tables flipped over. But now perhaps we should heed Professor Wilson’s suggestion and bring some order to this brawl. Not Marquess of Queensberry rules: we’ll keep it bare-knuckle. Yet it might worth selecting  particular issues to discuss—and encouraging some champions to step up to debate them. For a start, I’d like to see one of the FPR respond to the questions James raised yesterday, particularly #3. Any volunteers?

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