Questioning Question Time

Nick Griffin on Question Time/ Image: NewsPics Ltd/BBC

The aftermath of Thursday night’s Question Time, BBC1’s flagship current affairs show, is everywhere; from tabloids to broadsheets, Facebook to Twitter, blogs to bus stops. As I type, the BBC Trust is busy setting up ad-hoc committees to deal with appeals made against Griffin appearing on the [...]

Memories of MJ

My first memory of Michael Jackson comes from the very early nineties. The British children’s television show Blue Peter broadcast a brief clip of his ‘Black or White’ video, and spoke comfortably and openly about this superstar whose name had only just started ringing faint bells in my head. I remember asking my mother who [...]

Taking Panopticism One Step Too Far

CCTV camera in classroom at Davenant Foundation School (Credit: The Waltham Forest Guardian)

Students at The Davenant Foundation School in Loughton, UK recently participated in a series of protests over the installation of CCTV cameras in their classrooms. Some students, after missing three weeks of classes to voice their opposition returned to lectures only after [...]