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...casting Professor-type predicts that ‘in the future we’ll all be living underground eating minute floating plants’, and I should say that that’s his optimistic scenario. But the lighthearted moments are few and far between in TV coverage of population. From the 1960s onwards, broadcasters tended to frame it as a current problem and future menacing threat. The...

...cast: British people have voted for a government that has promised to hold a referendum on the UK’s EU membership by 2017. This week, business has intervened to liven up the debate. The country’s main industry lobby group wants its members to make a decisive contribution to the pro-EU campaign, but what has become clear in recent days is that there will be a far more...