At 10:45 am Pacific time, Britain’s The Spectator will be live-streaming audio of an interesting debate:

Tomorrow night [The debate is today; this quote is from yesterday. – ed.] from 6:45 pm, we’ll be broadcasting via this site a debate on the motion, “We should not be reluctant to assert the superiority of Western values.”

There is an all star cast of speakers involved.� David Aaronovitch, Douglas Murray and Ibn Warraq are speaking for the motion while Tariq Ramadan, William Dalrymple and Charles Glass are opposing it. Click here to read a piece that Douglas has written for us setting out his position.

I’m not sure why this is even a debatable subject, but with Ibn Warraq and Tariq Ramadan on opposing sides, there could be fireworks.

UPDATE at 10/9/07 10:24:21 am:

A link to the live audio stream is on the Spectator’s home page.