I spoke to Michael Odell last week about the following story, which had been partly triggered by a story in the Wall Street Journal about the police in the USA saying ‘every kid knows someone in their school they can get a burner phone from’, and looking at this within a more British context:
You can read the whole The Times article (behind paywall), but here is my 20 minute conversation bundled together into a quote:
I had a chat with Emine Saner on Wednesday morning, which resulted in quotes in the final paragraph of the article The ‘sharent’ trap – should you ever put your children on social media? in The Guardian:
So, we’re at a full circle. In 2009, I was quoted in the Daily Express (drawing from my PhD thesis) about Keep Calm and Carry On, which only a couple of days before a friend had alerted me was making waves. I thought this was highly amusing, as the poster had not been used in the Second World War, although the other two posters in the series had, and I’d written about them extensively in my 1997 undergraduate thesis, and my 2004 PhD thesis!
On 26th October 2017, I have a book coming out with the Imperial War Museum, entitled Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth About the Poster, and this has been covered today in the Daily Express in a full page article (although you can also read it online, or as a PDF):