Philip Pullman will be able to direct the discussion personally this October when he lectures at Open University. Having already spoken to a number of reporters on the vetting scheme, the children’s author will have the floor to himself 21 October:

“The trouble is that they never give you enough time or enough space to go into the subject properly. So on 21 October I’m going to give a lecture to the Open University, which will be put online, in which I’m going to examine the whole area. It seems to me that there are several issues in conflict here, and it’s worth exploring them in full.” Read more.