There is a reason A Teacher, a limited series about the relationship between a thirtysomething female teacher and her 17-year-old student, uses the indefinite article. “A”, not “the”, – a magnetic portrait of one black hole of a relationship, a deliberately uneasy exploration of one case of grooming that tries to stand for much more. The 10-part series, written and directed by Hannah Fidell based...
‘We’ll keep coming until he’s gone’: Anger grows as Batley protesters demand cartoon row teacher be fired
Outside Batley Grammar School on Friday morning, the protesters were unequivocal: they would continue demonstrating until the teacher was sacked. Four days after reports emerged that an RE teacher had shown his class a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad – in an apparently misguided attempt to educate about blasphemy – anger in the West Yorkshire town showed no signs of abating. Thirty men and...