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“It became clear to me that high security was especially a feature of very poor and very wealthy areas, a visual marker and reflection in the landscape of our sharply widening inequality.”

Still available here -> FourThought.mp3 <- Right click and Save As.

Of here if the BBC drop it -> FourThought.mp3 <- Right click and Save As.

Here’s Anna Minton writing in the Guardian on the day before her Radio 4 talk:-

https://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/oct/30/cctv-increases-peoples-sense-anxiety

Will Hutton put forward a similar point of view in an article about fairness for the Observer in September 2010.

“Ever more sophisticated CCTV policing the fortresses of the rich and the desolate housing estates of the disadvantaged has become the iconic social intervention of the age.”

https://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/26/them-and-us-will-hutton

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UPDATE: Keep an eye on future events UCLUSAVECARPENTERS

Last night I had the pleasure of attending a talk organised by the UCL Student Union about the future of the Carpenters Estate in Stratford, East London. By the start time of 1800 the lecture theatre was more or less full. Present were a majority of students, a few lecturers and three members of UCL management on the front row (including Andrew Grainger, Director, UCL Estates) both to see what they were up against (of which more later) and to answer the inevitable questions.

A write up by Michael Edwards is available here:-

https://michaeledwards.org.uk/?p=1135

and my own notes from the evening are available below.

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