Whatever else the '00s might or might not have going for them, it was beyond serious doubt the most amazing time for (some) television. Odd, then, that it was also the decade in which the television set itself disappeared from my life…

Faced with seemingly irreconcilable positions – between developed countries who won't change their economic model and poor countries who realise that accepting the crumbs from the table is little use when faced with environmental devastation – any facade of consensus has broken down. Looking increasingly desperate, the authorities are trying to clamp down on all criticism in the hope that that will make it go away