This year the festival dispensed with red carpet photocalls and put more focus on debate and discussion.
Leadership presence matters, so on debate nights and on the campaign trail overall, watch for the tells.
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So it was on debate night, so as a consequence we then scheduled for date night on Saturday.
Presumably, he wears it on debate nights, the way some veterans get out their old Eisenhower jackets on D-day anniversaries.
Make that the core bill you bring to the floor in both the House and Senate, with no limits on debate.
What to watch for on debate nights: Look for who spends more time with his eyes focused forward as opposed to focused down or darting around.
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Labour have fallen into the background on the debate on Scotland's future, while the Lib Dems are increasingly irrelevant.
Peers also join the continuing parliamentary debate on road safety with a short debate on rebalancing the responsibilities of motorists and cyclists on the roads.
Then in decision time the motion from Public Health Minister Michael Matheson on the debate on Carers and Young Carers Strategy was passed unamended and unanimously.
The first, led by Lord Haskell, is on the development and retention of manufacturing industry in the UK. Then Lord Dubs leads a debate on the support available for people with neurological conditions, and there's a short debate on the future of Citizens Advice Bureaux - led by Lord Boateng.
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He also confirmed Backbench Business Committee debate on metal theft on 7 February, as well as an opposition debate on bankers' pay.
The nearly complete focus of the subsequent Congressional energy and climate debate on the primacy of carbon pricing may have ultimately prevented meaningful debate on how to optimize and extend the critical, comprehensive clean energy investments begun under to stimulus and enact a long-term investment strategy to strengthen clean energy competitiveness.
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At 11.00 am Labour's former cabinet minister Hazel Blears leads a debate on the mental health of veterans and at 12.30 the Conservative MP Caroline Dinenage opens a debate on the proposal for an Arctic Convoy Veterans Medal.
BBC: Viewing guide: The pick of the week ahead in Parliament
The highlights of the backbench debates over in Westminster Hall look to be the Conservative Richard Harrington's debate on the future of British retail (at 2.30pm) and his colleague Paul Maynard's debate on youth participation in World War I commemorations (4pm).
But they were defeated by 99 to 84 votes on the issue, voted on during a debate on the government's Coroners and Justice Bill.
Earlier on in the debate on 29 February 2012, the Liberal Democrat's Baroness Shirley Williams said she feared homeless people and travellers could be deprived of NHS treatment under the bill.
As the Commons embarked on a topical debate on Afghanistan on 14 January 2010, the foreign secretary told MPs that the right balance of military and political effort could expose divisions in the insurgency operating against coalition forces.
For a second time this week, Cameron weighed in on the debate over Suarez's bite on Friday.
The Conservative Peter Bone and allies want seven hours set aside to debate the amendments on the press, and it's quite possible the debate may extend into the small hours - so pity Labour MP Lilian Greenwood, who has an adjournment debate on benefit changes in Nottingham at the end of business.
The House on Tuesday will debate two measures on cloning, which some observers see as a dress rehearsal for the coming debate over embryonic stem cell research.
Pawlenty fell into this trap with his attacks on Bachmann in the debate on the eve of the Iowa caucuses.
Despite the usual wheeling and dealing, on the eve of debate on March 22nd it was still four votes short of the 35 it needed.
Indeed a nationalist MP born on Belfast's Falls Road argued on Monday that any debate on a new EU treaty should be viewed as an opportunity to claw back powers from Brussels.
You know, the outcome of this vote on cutting off the debate on Bolton, which started yesterday, was really, really up in the air, although there was a sense that maybe Republicans were going to prevail, cut off debate.
There were regular debates before EU summits, there was an annual fisheries debate, a Welsh debate, held close to St David's Day a Scottish debate, a debate on the work of the Public Accounts Committee, an annual fisheries debate, and so on.
MPs went on to debate the implications of the government's legislative programme on education and health policy.
This is the final report on the debate now raging in the Diet and within the major political parties on how to reform the national pension system.
That any Microsoft employee is publicly commenting on this debate is strange indeed, and these tweets are petulant enough to put a sour face on an already divisive topic.
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Tourism became an insidious influence on the debate between the party that wanted Venice to be a creature of its past which concentrated on conservation and restoration, and those who preferred to improve the quality of life even if that meant changing the face of the place.
The two men are on different sides of a debate on a fuel that is increasingly under a political and public microscope.
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