Media Stuff

Frank Chalk was interviewed by ITN for the 10 o'clock news yesterday. The thrust of the piece was about new rules coming in to help teachers control rowdy kids and confiscate mobile phones, legal highs, pornography and cigarettes.

It was a bit blink-and-you-miss-it, but if you click on this link you can see the great man opining.

Chalk wrote about this stuff in It's Your Time You're Wasting. Lots of people thought he was making it up (ie that kids in some schools watch porn, drink and take drugs in the classroom), and The Times published a review saying it was a 'sour and vituperative' book (to be fair, they also said it was 'addictive'). I suppose not too many Times journos send their kids to terrible inner city comps, though.

Had a long chat with PC David Copperfield yesterday. Now a policeman in Canada, I wondered if he'd like to step into the breach vis a vis the BBC1 prog this Sunday (see previous blog post), part of which will be about whether or not the cops should be armed.

While working in Burton on Trent he was of the opinion that they ought to be, and his experiences on the other side of the Atlantic have only reinforced this belief. He drives around with a bootful of automatic weapons and shotguns, and says the streets are about as safe as can be. It takes all sorts (he has just taken delivery of his own personal AR15).

Anyway, he should be on the telly on Sunday morning, talking live via webcam from his bunker in Edmonton.