peter i dont think the end bit of britz did any thing for race relations do you reali think you should have put that on this country is a tinder box just waiting for that spark how would you feel if your progaram was that spark

I think it is important to show this - if this country is a 'tinder box' then we as a society should change it... Our government is destablizing the country by it's actions - we need to see that....

i agree it inportant to show this but to blame every body in briton for this is rong nobody wanted to go to iraq its not the people of this contry its the goverment and the goverment dont listen to the people wich ever party are in power but what do we do as the people to stop this dreconian goverment

To be honest bennett, certain tabloid elements of the media want us to beleive that this country is a tinder box, but this isn't true.

For instance you are still more likely to be killed in your own home by someone known to you - or by a car on your way to work than by a terrorist attack.

But if people are enraged, waiting to attack, we need to understand what their motivations are. There will be a lot of them, but I'm guessing a Channel 4 drama would not feature that highly on the list.

As for blaming everyone for what our elected government is doing - we have to take some moral responsiblity. Morality is not as easy as saying "no-one wanted the war". It was declared by our elected leaders and fuelled by our americanised and tabloid culture. The people in Iraq don't know the difference.

Just wanted to say that I found Britz moving, thought provoking and shocking - but not for the obvious reasons. Th shocks came in the Control Order sequences. The subject matter offered clearly signposted visual hooks to get me into Britz - but it was hearing about aspects of our legal system and the Law which has left me quite numb. As ground-breaking as Cathy Come Home... Thank you Peter

I see there are many Muslims who are stating that they consider the drama's depiction of terrorism as showing anomalies and being far from accurate. If they KNOW this to be the case, as opposed to merely giving their personal view, then it could be inferred that their knowledge of the aforesaid would be something the Police would be interested in hearing. So hey, people - remember this is a work of fiction and not worth getting all fired up over!(Whether you are a white Police officer or a Muslim medical student!) In addition It should be pointed out that people hardly lend credibility to their views with such atrocious spelling mistakes and inappropriate use of the English language!
Overall a very enjoyable fictional drama, worthy of a future TV award, I imagine.

The only saving grace about this drama was the exposure of the outrageous laws that are passed in this country and their abusive implementation that could criminalise any one of us. I didn't believe in any of the motivations. . I didn't believe in the brother's blind allegiance to the authorities, joining MI6 and spying against his friends. Maybe a better motivation would have been for him to covet the imagined glamour of working for MI6, to have a desire for high status and an ambition to be a success. All these things might pit him against an identity that has denied him all of these things living as an Asian in Britain. But this film didn't go there. I also didn't believe in the sister who had friends and colleagues of all identities and had no reason to wish them personal harm. There was a hint that she could have been motivated by the sufferings of people in the Middle East, victims of war. But unless she works out that it is American and European policies that brought that tragedy to the Middle East and continue to fuel it, which she doesn't, it doesn't give her any motive to kill for it. And then certainly not kill innocent people, because there is nothing in the story which suggests that she holds them responsible for electing the government and supporting the authorities which have inflicted such harm in the Middle East. In fact the ending was so ludicrous, we saw well meaning beautiful white musicians playing beautiful music to a multicultural family audience - nothing which could possibly motivate her to kill them - in the end her act seemed to be motivated by selfish reasons, we see her hesitate as she knows it goes against her own beliefs, but in the end we are meant to believe she didn't want to be treated as a terrorist by the armed police so she blew herself up! - a girl who had only displayed selflessness so far was shown as selfish in blowing up people she knew were innocent. This was a badly constructed unbelievable story, by a well-meaning white liberal who knows nothing about what Asians experience at all and what might motivate someone to betray, and someone else to kill - it demonises Asians, like everyone down any Asian street is plotting a bomb for no good reason at all, that we can all be tipped into the madness of killing people at the drop of a hat. Yes, I agree we are victims of the oppressive authorities which have decided we are all potential killers just because of the colour of our skin, this film tries half way to expose that, but then rather than pushing through like Cathy Come Home, this film goes on to confirm the authorities view is right, that in fact that is actually what we Asians all really are, potential killers...same old racist view, this time aimed at Asians, before it was aimed at Blacks...same old imperialist ideas of who is 'the savage' and who is 'the civilised' strikes again. An outrageous amount of money went on making this film, just to assert the authorities are right to have imposed such oppressive laws on us all.