Darryl Brown A-Level

Boris Johnson Leader of the Conservative party Current Prime Minister Took over from Theresea May                                                         Jeremy Corbyn Leader of the Labour party up until the loss of the December 2019 election Was going to put a lot of money into the NHS Jo Swinson Leader of the Liberal Democrats up until the December 2019 election Voted out by the Scottish Nationalist Party Nigel Farage Leader of the Brexit Party Former UKIP party leader Wants Brexit done Sian Berry Green party co-leader Monday's Newspapers: The Daily Mail uses a variety of Media language to make the readers trust the Conservatives. For example, the use of lexis used instructs the reader to vote for the audience. Th...

Britain's national newspapers are hardly known for their political reticence. Historically, most of them have been unashamedly partisan, spinning every story in order either to promote the party they favour or to denigrate the opposition. They did not need to wait until just before an election to tell their readers how they should vote: their daily political agenda was patently obvious. There has been something of a change over the last 20 years – dating from the fall of Margaret Thatcher – because almost all papers have tended to proclaim their independence from political parties. Most newspapers in the UK are for-Conservative. This is because the owners of the newspapers are themselves supporters of the Tories. Most of the newspapers in the UK are actually Conservative, whilst there only being a few for Labour.

Conservatives Who are they? The Conservative Party was founded in the nineteenth century, with the promise to back necessary public reform. The party supports rolling back the state and expanding the free market to create a spirit of competition and entrepreneurship. The Conservatives are the largest party in Parliament with over 300 MPs. After the 2017 General Election the Conservatives formed a minority government and signed a “ confidence and supply ” agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party. This means that the DUP will back the Conservatives on votes in the House of Commons. What are they doing? The Conservatives are currently led by Boris Johnson who took over when Theresa May stood-down as Prime Minister in July following the insuccess of completing Brexit. As the governing party, the Conservatives can introduce bills which are a way of turning their policies into laws. You can read all about these bills in our  Laws  section, which is a good way of see...

LO2 - Discuss, explain and evaluate how media context (where the media product was produced and screened) may have influenced representation in the TV drama you have studied SPECIFIC TERMINOLOGY: Americanisation  McDonaldisation Cultural Imperialism Capitalism Consumerism Islamophobia/islamophibic   WE ARE PRISONERS OF AMERICAN CULTURE American culture is all over the world. For example, mcdonalds is in every country in the world, apart from 5 countries. Even then, there is American technology (i.e computers, macs) all over the world. America own google, one of the biggest media companies in the world. Television also links into the world domination of Americanisation. Even from a very young age, children who were watching SKY TV have been watching American TV, for example Disney channel is shown to children all over the world who's parents pay for SKY.  Clothing brands which most people wear is even from America. DOMINANT IDEOLOGY IN FILMS AND T...

Todorovs theory  Equilibrium                                Shrek lives alone in the swamp                                                           with no friends or worries Disruption                                    Fairytale creatures appear at                                                               Shrek's swamp, after they were                                              ...