I spoke on Radio 4’a Today programme this morning on public libraries as infrastructure for democracy & making the case that government takes its superintendence responsibilities seriously under the 1964 Act. From 2:23 onwards www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today - 06/09/24 - How will UK tackle the trafficking gangs? - BBC Sounds

Home secretary will chair talks on breaking the gangs smuggling people across the Channel.

But poor people go there and read books for free and before you know they're thinking for themselves and seeing through the official line - well, you can see why we need to discourage this kind of thing.