Watch the lively debate at the Battle of Ideas Festival with the Liberal Democrat MP Lynne Featherstone telling us we are lazy and like to vote from the couch for Pop Idol instead of in a polling booth. Dr Tony Breslin, chief executive of the Citizenship Foundation, argues for a citizen-rich curriculum and teacher Kevin Rooney emphasized that young people had historically led political change from the Bolshevik revolution to Tiananmen Square and en masse voting for Obama. Schools he argued are not the place for a disconnected political elite to resolve its failings.
