Summary: 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. Final vote: 319 For, 333 Against
