| Topic: | Re:provocative article in Telegraph re Acton | |
| Posted by: | David Lawes | |
| Date/Time: | 01/02/13 18:32:00 |
| The article shouts those two French words “déjà vu”. There is something about the W3 postcode area that has had the media gunning for it for years. This is the 2nd time in my 52 years that they’ve done it in a big way. First was in 1977 with the BBC’s BEST DAYS documentary on Faraday High School that was coincidentally located off The Vale. The second is now in 2013 with this article. In both cases there is truth in what was being said – but only one element of the truth. We saw only a cross-section of classes at Faraday, we see in this article only one street in Acton. Just as the BBC could have picked far better places to show how discipline was breaking down in schools in the ‘70s (my Bucks so-called “grammar” school would have been a truly outstanding example!), so it could have picked far better places to demonstrate the Islamification of parts of the UK. Tower Hamlets would have been infinitely better. So would Alum Rock, Birmingham. So why do they go hell for leather on poor old Acton? Anyone got any ideas? |