THE WIRE
July/August 2012
The BBC's suffocating conformism, petty prohibitions and woozy moralism are the enemy of creativity
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July/August 2012
Many commentators were sceptical when Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling recently alluded to The Wire in the context of crime in Britain. After all, there is a huge disparity between murder rates in Baltimore and London. True enough, as they sa
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