theft, vigilantism and the fetishisation of public humiliation

On Thursday, a group of five people attempted to make off with a load of watches from a posh London jewellery shop after smashing the window with a sledgehammer. They were foiled not by police, or shop security – but by a mob of more than 50 passers by and shoppers who jumped in and [...]

and over to John for the latest CRIME!

What is news and what’s the point of it? It doesn’t seem to be about education, providing insight into global events or speaking truth to power.  These days it’s not even really news at all…it’s just crime. Yesterday, a day where as far as we can tell precisely zero new developments in the latest media [...]