Associate Professor of Media and Communication, University of Leicester
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But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers.
I’m gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes.
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All that will happen is the kids will get bored, go rummaging around in the loft, find some Judas Priest vinyl and play it backwards for a bit of fun.
"And that's why I wanted to ensure that the third of children in poverty in this country are joined by many others by buying lots of drones and guns and... tanks! Oh yeah, tanks are cool... Instead of giving people the support they need to live." This guy is something else.
Thank you to the person who reminded me about the Dungeons and Dragons moral panic in the 80s.
And now they want some version of these on social media as well apparently
Back to something the UK government is desperate to push on everyone, being actually a bit shit.
Hey kids- struggling to find something to do now you're not allowed on social media? Get yourself down to your local bookshop and check out The Sorrows of Young Werther. That's a dude that feels your pain.
How any of us who've read books, comics, watched films, TV, videos, played video games, went online made it to adulthood at all is remarkable. Media moral panics are always the same.
Dr Fern Riddell
As ever, it's a policy where the *possible* but unsubstantiated risk to the privileged are heavily prioritised over the *actual* harms that would be done to the underprivileged. Modern politics in a nutshell, basically.
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Strong statement from the Court of Appeal re Palestine Action.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go
In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.
