05-06-2024, 09:45 AM
(05-06-2024, 08:18 AM)VMPhil Wrote: I know I will get shouted down for this but, with the exception of the very first in 2010 moderated brilliantly by Alastair Stewart, I have found TV debates to be an obnoxious waste of time. Thorough interviews with each leader are far better, ironically - because they do not actually ever “debate” things properly.I agree, they're mostly completely pointless especially the compulsion of the news to decide a 'winner' - there's no quantative factor in a debate to be able to decide that