The Hexham Debates
Following the second of this year’s Hexham Debates, Caroline Westgate reflects on how the project has evolved over the past four years
On a Saturday morning in January 2007, some Quakers arranged a public meeting to be addressed by Bruce Kent. Parliament was about to debate the renewal of Britain’s nuclear-armed submarines, so the topic was ‘What Price Trident?’ The setting was a church hall in a small market town near Hadrian’s Wall (another piece of obsolete militarism). Feeling optimistic, the Friends put out fifty chairs, unaware that 250 people were making their way to the hall, and that a long-term project was about to begin.
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