News: The Census and Grime Artist Ghetts the puppet!!
Ghetts's new track, Invisible, is part of a drive to persuade ethnic minorities to fill in the census. The US arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin is to handle the UK's census data. "Some don't know what a census is," the London grime artist Ghetts begins, "some do but they don't see the sense in it." Over a catchy hook and with a flashy video to accompany, his new track, "Invisible", seems to be part of the government's drive to persuade young people and ethnic minorities to fill in this year's national census population survey. But there is a small fact they are failing to mention in December 2008, the government quietly awarded the £150m contract to collect and securely handle the 2011 census data to Lockheed Martin, the second-largest arms manufacturer in the world. It makes bombs, bomber jets and has run most of the US military's intelligence gathering and interrogation, including at Guantánamo Bay, where it operated thr