Down The Club

I stayed in tonight to watch Last Orders, Henry Singer's analysis of a working men's club in Bradford, part of the BBC's White season.

Did the BBC have to choose an American presenter because they don't have a single white working class journalist on their books, and thought it better to send a foreigner than someone who had been to public school?

Having said that, putting aside the usual BBC obsession with race, at least they let people speak. The programme was worth watching for that alone (plus the guy who had clearly voted BNP but was too ashamed to say so).

I'm suspicious though of this obsession with showing the working class in decline, dying or on its last legs. We hardly saw anyone under 30 in the programme - have all the white working class people that age in Bradford been abducted by aliens or something?