Strange stuff happens; The New Statesman's event was one of the highlights of this year's Hay literary festival: Britain's leading political playwright, David Hare, took the stage with the NS editor, John Kampfner, for a conversation about Iraq and covert censorship

JK: I thought I would quote to you an extract from your first public lecture in 1978 in Cambridge: 'Satire depends on ignorance; it is based on the proposition 'if [...]