“The Usual Suspects” – Politics, Social Change & Media Representations of Youth
By Dan J Broadley Riots. Gangs. Violence. As tabloid newspapers referred to it, ‘Broken Britain’ – the vision of a nation dominated by organised gangs of hooded, knife wielding youths! Is this reality? Or media sensation? Author and cultural historian, Professor Bill Osgerby, was at Manchester Metropolitan University this week to shed some light on…


