Brick Lane – final word?
Sunny has it at Comment is Free. Branding the whole affair a “concocted controversy” in in which “all the necessary actors (self-appointed community leader, media, the defensive politician, the well-meaning but delusioned liberal) played their part perfectly”, he concludes:
The need to fill space during silly season aside, the filming needs to go ahead. Otherwise it will signal that any local businessman can warn newspapers of protests and quickly achieve their intended aims at censorship. In the long term that will hurt the new generation of Britons more than any attempts at sanitised portrayals.
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[…] … comes from Sunny Hundal (via) The need to fill space during silly season aside, the filming needs to go ahead. Otherwise it will signal that any local businessman can warn newspapers of protests and quickly achieve their intended aims at censorship. In the long term that will hurt the new generation of Britons more than any attempts at sanitised portrayals. […]