I'm not on social media myself and have no wish to be, but my daughter has sent me links to the Jeremy Bamber presence on something called TikTok.
What TikTok is will always elude me. I am strictly of the Web 1.0/BBC Micro generation, which now seems ancient, like wooden gramophones, but from what I can make of it, it seems to be to YouTube what Twitter is to Facebook. In other words, it seems to be a platform for micro-vlogging. No doubt that's wrong and a cleverer/more up-to-date person will come along and correct me.
Here I offer you a sample - only a sample - of the Jeremy Bamber presence on TikTok. Make of it what you will, but it forms part of the wider case documentation nonetheless, at least in respect of social commentary and critique. Add more or comment as you please.
Sheila seen in the kitchenhttps://www.tiktok.com/@justice4jeremybamber/video/7047031971653995781Jeremy on his relationship with Sheilahttps://www.tiktok.com/@justice4jeremybamber/video/7046665300917505286Julie Mugford's criminal historyhttps://www.tiktok.com/@justice4jeremybamber/video/7046289442839006470I, for one, make no comment here on the subject-matter covered: whether the claims are fair or accurate and so on. I will only comment on the production values and the likely efficacy of the strategy. My personal view is that this work is very well done and is likely to be effective in helping penetrate Jeremy's counter-narrative into the mainstream. So there you are.
I don't propose for this thread to become a full compendium of Jeremy Bamber's corpus on TikTok, but it might. The obstacle is that I don't have a TikTok account and frankly don't want one. I'll leave it to the younger generations.
Yet I do have a wider concern in that vein: I do wonder if this increasing concision in information helps or hinders comprehension. There is something to be said for sitting down to read a long and difficult book or missive, whether it is a Wilkie Collins classic or a Shakespearean play or a detailed forensic report uploaded on to the Forum by Mike. This is especially important if it is something you don't - maybe can't - understand and that calls out to you as a challenge to the intellect. Concision and simplification may point the way to an unpleasant climate in which thoughtfulness, reflection and objectivity are supplanted by intellectual tribalism and a sense of 'knowing it all' about subjects or controversies that are actually a bit more complicated than they appear.