Glover plays peacemaker after Orwell prize row

The Independent's media columnist Stephen Glover attempts to play peacemaker today after Nick Cohen's attack on Peter Oborne and Peter Hitchens at the Orwell prize debate.
Cohen's performance at the debate, in which he accused Gordon Brown of being behind the removal of Martin Bright as political editor of the New Statesman, can be seen here on You Tube.
Glover believes it was partly provoked by a letter to The Observer, signed by Oborne among others, taking issue with Cohen's claim that the liberal-left has failed to challenge Islamist extremism.
He writes: "My suggestion is that Nick Cohen should take Peter Oborne and Peter Hitchens out for a drink, and apologise for maligning them; that journalists should not sign letters to newspapers which might possibly be construed as an attempt to have another journalist sacked, and that, whether we agree with him or not, we should all defend Mr Cohen's right to continue to have his say."