• Going round in circles for democratic debate | Lettesr

    Going round in circles for democratic debate | Lettesr
    The benefit of circular parliamentary chambers is well established in other countries, says Philip C Stenning, while Robin Gardner stresses that confrontation isn’t the essence of debateYour correspondents (Letters, 1 March and 3 March) have missed the point in discussing “semicircular layouts” for parliamentary debating chambers. The benefit of semicircular, or even circular, layouts for such venues, is not that they “get rid of confrontational bear pits”, but that

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