Welcome everybody. It's going to be an absolutely marvelous debate tonight.

This is the topic of the Millennium and how perspications of all of you to manage to get tickets tonight to be here.

We are going to have a tremendous time.

We've got an outstanding panel on both sides.

We have a tremendous motion.

We have a wonderful audience.

And you've managed to brave your way through hellish weather.

So I can't say that, can I?

That's a compromise of my neutrality.

But let's get straight on.

Straight on and we're going to start with Richard Harris.

Richard Harris, former Bishop of Boxford.

Richard. Good evening everybody. It's very natural for parents to be proud of

their children and three mothers were once discussing their achievements.

One said, my son's an ambassador.

When he comes into the room, he's addressed as, your excellency.

To which the second mother responded,

my son's a cardinal when he comes into the room,

people call him your eminence.

The third mother simply said,

my son is six foot half and a half feet tall,

with shoulders as wide as a barn when he comes

...