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Lawless Britain?
This is the Q&A part of this session, filmed by WORLDwrite volunteers at the Battle of Ideas Festival. A highly engaged audience raise their points, questions and concerns.
#UKCrime
#PublicSafety
#LawAndOrder
#socialcohesion
Mexico recently warned its citizens about rising robbery and knife crime in Britain, echoing a growing public sense that UK lawlessness is increasing, from phone-snatching on Oxford Street to viral incidents of fare-dodging on the Tube. Yet Fraser Nelson argues in The Times that surveys show Britain’s streets are safer than ever, and that social media and populist narratives distort reality—an outlook critics call naïve and detached from everyday antisocial behaviour such as fly-tipping, loud public nuisance, and brazen shoplifting. With concerns about immigration feeding crime debates and official advice discouraging public intervention, writers like Jenni Russell highlight citizens defying this passivity, including groups cleaning graffiti from Tube trains. This discussion explores what’s really going on.
The speakers on the panel are:
Neil Davenport - cultural critic; head of faculty of social sciences, JFS Sixth Form Centre
Amy Gallagher - nurse; political commentator
Rory Geoghegan - founder and CEO, SafetyScore; founder, The Public Safety Foundation; former police officer and special adviser
Fatima Gunning - reporter, Gript Media
Luke Tryl - executive director, More in Common UK; writer and commentator; former political special advisor
The chair is:
Sally Millard - director of finance; co-founder, AoI Parents Forum
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Lawless Britain?
This is the Q&A part of this session, filmed by WORLDwrite volunteers at the Battle of Ideas Festival. A highly engaged audience raise their points, questions and concerns.
#UKCrime
#PublicSafety
#LawAndOrder
#socialcohesion
Mexico recently warned its citizens about rising robbery and knife crime in Britain, echoing a growing public sense that UK lawlessness is increasing, from phone-snatching on Oxford Street to viral incidents of fare-dodging on the Tube. Yet Fraser Nelson argues in The Times that surveys show Britain’s streets are safer than ever, and that social media and populist narratives distort reality—an outlook critics call naïve and detached from everyday antisocial behaviour such as fly-tipping, loud public nuisance, and brazen shoplifting. With concerns about immigration feeding crime debates and official advice discouraging public intervention, writers like Jenni Russell highlight citizens defying this passivity, including groups cleaning graffiti from Tube trains. This discussion explores what’s really going on.
The speakers on the panel are:
Neil Davenport - cultural critic; head of faculty of social sciences, JFS Sixth Form Centre
Amy Gallagher - nurse; political commentator
Rory Geoghegan - founder and CEO, SafetyScore; founder, The Public Safety Foundation; former police officer and special adviser
Fatima Gunning - reporter, Gript Media
Luke Tryl - executive director, More in Common UK; writer and commentator; former political special advisor
The chair is:
Sally Millard - director of finance; co-founder, AoI Parents Forum
WORLDwrite is a volunteer-run citizen TV channel that stands up for free speech – no ifs or buts. We film hard-hitting political debates, including panels from the Battle of Ideas festival, tackling taboo topics and defending ordinary people against contempt and censorship.
We train hundreds of young adults every year to shoot the arguments that matter, producing fearless films on politics, democracy, freedom, and global equality. This is Citizen TV that punches above its weight.
Please subscribe for unapologetic documentaries, debate and dissent.
With no paid staff the charity needs your help to keep its edit suites switched on. Please chip in if you can by visiting the charity's JustGiving page at justgiving.com/charity/worldwrite Or hit the Donate button below the video. Thank You.
