Simon Collins

A British newspaper once ran a TV ad extolling the virtues of journalistic objectivity. ‘Point of view’, which you can still find on YouTube, is a sequence of three pieces of grainy street footage, all showing the same event, but each shot from a different CCTV. The first shows something with which 1980’s UK audiences would have been depressingly familiar; a shaven-headed, bovver-booted youth sprinting through a town centre (full disclosure; it’s me).