BUNS AND STUFF

In case the news-blip passed you by, Amanda Platell  a columnist for the Daily Mail made ripples by suggesting in print that one of the Bake-off contestants, a middle-class woman called Flora Shedden, and her chocolate carousel, were booted off the BBC’s Bake Off cake contest in favour of Muslim mum Nadiya Hussain, gay doctor Tamal Ray and “new man” Ian Cumming, because she wasn’t “politically correct” enough. Perhaps, wrote Platell, “if she’d made a chocolate mosque she’d have stood a better chance”.


Follow the link below to the article on the Daily Mail coverage of Bake-off. How can a programme about buns create such an ideological storm?
In the lesson today we're going to explore some of these issues



DAILY MAIL AND BAKE-OFF