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Cancel #Jeremy_Clarkson, cancel #Top_Gear and cancel British #jingoism
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Like Musa Okwonga, I was not going to write about Jeremy Clarkson mumbling the n-word and feigning indignation at the slap on the wrist he received from the BBC over it. Much like the time he proudly announced he’d named his black Scottish terrier Didier Drogba, or any of the numerous other racist, sexist, homophobic, ableist, anti-worker, anti-immigrant, […]

#General #OPINION #TELEVISION #British_empire #imperialism #Postcolonial_Melancholia

What’s Wrong With English Reality TV?
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In the spirit of recent posts on AIAC about reality TV shows in Germany and Italy which use Africa as background to national #TELEVISION’s asinine imagination, I’d like to step back a few months and check out one of England’s own televised fits of historical delusion. #BBC Two aired a two-part Africa special of their […]

#James_May #Jeremy_Clarkson #Richard_Hammond #Tanzania #Top_Gear #Uganda