Question Time left me with Qs
As an infrequent visitor to BBC’s Question Time - a British news and current affairs show - I chose to watch it – online of course recently. The dynamics of live audience / presenter / panelists paired with an explosive topic can, I find, be quite exciting and revealing – as much as a study of people watching as it informs my loftier political understanding! So, buoyed by an eager anticipation, I was excited to discover how Fiona Bruce would hold proceedings (having inherited the presenter’s mantle from the venerable David Dimbleby at the start of 2019). As you’d expect, there was the typical political posturing from the panelists on a variety of topics including knife crime, mandatory vaccination and Brexit of course. As the show unfolded, a couple of things caught my attention as being, dare I say it, even more interesting than the mildly interesting cycle of panelists’ responses and audience retorts. What struck me? A couple of audience questions were handled in a very ...