Given the furore over recent weeks about Martin Amis’s comments on the legitimacy of harassment of Muslims, I thought a little trip to Manchester University’s Whitworth Hall to hear him battle it out with Terry Eagleton might be, well, interesting shall we say.
Unfortunately, Eagleton couldn’t make it so we’re left with only Maureen Freely and Ed Husain to debate with Amis. But that’ll do for me.
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