All the world’s a reality TV studio

Read spiked editor Mick Hume's columns this week in The Times (London).

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
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Friday 19 January:
Where does reality end and reality television begin these days? A show as pointlessly bitchy as Channel 4’s Celebrity Big Brother has been blown up into a public controversy, while the real-life issue of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) has been reduced to a reality TV bitch-fest by BBC Panorama.

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Tuesday 16 January:
I don’t know much about ballet, but I know what I don’t like. I don’t like the British National Party. But I cannot stand the campaign to have Simone Clarke sacked from the English National Ballet for supporting the BNP.

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