Baroness Afshar cracks up live on TV

Only Baroness Afshar gets the joke (tough crowd for Prof Glees!)

I wonder if more chemists might care to open their doors on Sunday mornings. I suspect they'd do a roaring trade in blood pressure tablets and calming herbal remedies during Nicky Campbell's The Big Questions. It certainly doesn't make for the most restful viewing on a Sunday morning,

Take Baroness Afshar. (Please!). She laughed and put her head in her hands theatrically through out pretty much everything Professor Anthony Glees said this morning on the subject of Islamic radicalism and the PREVENT strategy, and was about as rude as you could get. (She later played the 'Islamophobia' card),

Then there was the usual BBC audience, loudly jeering Professor Glees or clapping attacks on Professor Glees for not saying the right things. 

The central 'big question' today was "Is the PREVENT strategy stifling discussion in schools?"

Here's how Nicky Campbell introduced the topic:

Now. on Monday the National Union of Teachers conference called for the government to withdraw its PREVENT strategy in schools. Teachers say they're being asked to report even minor concerns about pupils who they fear may be at risk of radicalisation. The teachers say the unintended result has been to silence Muslim pupils in class discussion for fear their families might be reported to the security services. Is the PREVENT strategy stifling discussion in schools?

Watch it if you dare! (Or do something more fun instead).