Whatever the overruns on time and cost, one thing the London 2012 Olympics is certain to deliver is a huge public debt. The enormous bill for two weeks of telematic sport is legitimated by promises of urban regeneration. But a growing number of people contest that in reality the games are nothing more than a corporate landgrab.

In this, its first evening of discussion on the increasingly urgent subject of debt, Martin Slavin of Gamesmonitor will respond to Mute contributor Mark Saunders' analysis of the negative impacts of the London Olympics.

Read Mark's article The Regeneration Games.