Lucinda rocks the boat at Electric Nitpick

THE MacGill summer school is a bit like Glastonbury for geeks.

The festival attracts politicos from across the country who mass in the summer rain to hear their favourite anorak, sorry, advocate — and pay for the privilege.

The grimness of the times gives the tone of the debate a definite aura of Electric Nitpick rather than Electric Picnic, but the line-up still bristles with surprises.