Archive: Debate – There’s Not Much Great About Britain

Welcome to Intelligence Squared. Where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sarrenti. For today's episode, we're revisiting a debate from January 2020. The motion was, there's not much great about Britain. And speaking for the motion, we had journalist and broadcaster Peter Hitchens, alongside Will Self, the novelist, broadcaster, and literary critic.

Speaking against the motion were Kate Hoey, the former Labour MP for Vauxhall, and now member of the House of Lords, alongside Saida Worty, the lawyer, politician, and former co-chairwoman of the Conservative Party. The debate was chaired by historian and author Anthony Selden. Now let's join Anthony as he introduces the debate. So we want blood tonight, we want heated argument, we want passion intensity. I was really worried earlier because they were getting on much too well and it was far too cozy. So we've gone to rip this apart because this debate matters colossally. This is the debate of the day, of the week.

and we're debating it tonight with a very talented panel indeed. The debate is I'm going to read it out for you There's not much great. About Britain.

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