1 RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: White Working People Children have Been Betrayed

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Saturday night at 8 o'clock found me not at the motion pictures however at the Cinema Museum, a surprise gem near the Oval cricket ground in South London, located in a previous workhouse which was briefly home to the young Charlie Chaplin after his mother fell on tough times.
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Truth be told, I rarely endeavor south of the river. As Dave, from the Winchester Club, alerted Arthur Daley: 'Great deal of really wicked people' in Sarf Lunnon.

Coincidentally, the celebration was a one-man program by my old mate George Layton, actor, director, scriptwriter, author, whose finest hour - a minimum of to my mind - was playing Des, the dodgy automobile mechanic in Minder.

George read from his collection of narratives set in the 1950s, when he was maturing in post-war Bradford. They're magnificently composed, warm, amusing, expressive, a slice of history, a working-class version of Richmal Crompton's Just William experiences.

The storylines are based on the trials and adversities of a kid being raised by a single mom - an unconventional domesticity back then, sadly just too typical today. The Fib And Other Stories has actually been in print considering that 1975 and discovered its method on to the school curriculum, where it remains today.

I can't help questioning, though, how often these glorious texts are used in class these days, in between instructors stuffing their pupils' little heads with trendy far-Left propaganda about 'white opportunity', manifest destiny and, naturally, climate modification.

The kids in the monochrome school photograph which formed the background to George's reading were definitely white, but no one might have described them as privileged. Those were the days when living from hand to mouth, not having to go for a fundamental 50in flat screen TV, instead of a 65in OLED Ultra design, and only having the ability to pay for an iPhone 14 rather than the most recent all-singing, all-dancing AI variation.

Child hardship was real, bread-and-dripping, holes-in-your-shoes stuff, not dining on Deliveroo and reluctantly using last season's Nike trainers.

Until the digital/social media transformation, children got their understanding primarily from books, writes Littlejohn

In the 1950s, kids experienced authentic challenge, not the hardship of aspiration and creativity which blights this generation, through no fault of their own. Today, kids live by means of their mobile phones, instead of wandering totally free and experiencing life to the complete.

Until the digital/social media transformation, kids got their understanding mostly from books. Yes, TV played a huge role, as did the films, but no place near the dominance of TikTok and other apps using instantaneous satisfaction in byte-sized chunks.

And how can squinting at the newest CGI produced blockbuster on a mobile phone a few inches broad ever compare to the sort of old-school, huge screen, Technicolor and Cinemascope, best-out-of-Hollywood experience commemorated at the Cinema Museum?

It can't. Just as the very best images are stated to be on the radio, even much better pictures can be discovered in the printed word.

One of the most dismaying things I have actually read recently was the author Anthony Horowitz bemoaning the reality that his 300-page books are far too long to engage the shorter attention spans these days's kids.

No marvel child, and undoubtedly adult, literacy levels have plummeted amazingly. All this has contributed to the stunning revelation that white, working class pupils - kids in particular - are being left. Even Labour's Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has been forced to admit they have actually been 'betrayed' by the contemporary schools system.

They suffer from an absence of parental involvement and following scarceness of goal. The white, working class kid in George Layton's stories definitely didn't suffer any parental overlook from his domineering mum. Nor did he do not have imagination or aspiration.

Education was the escape of poverty. It produced eloquent wordsmiths like George, in post-war Bradford - and our own dear Keith Waterhouse, late of this parish, who matured in poverty in neighboring pre-war Leeds.

Literacy is the best gift we can bestow on any kid. My grandmas taught me to read before I went to school, setting me on the early road to a satisfying profession at the wordface instead of the relative drudgery of the work environment.

George Layton is considering taking his one-man show on the road, to little provincial theatres. I have actually got a better idea.

If the Education Secretary wishes to reverse the betrayal of white, working class kids she could begin by getting the phone and welcoming George to visit schools, reading from his narratives.

I honestly believe that if they could be encouraged to search for from their mobiles for an hour, they 'd be enthralled and inspired by the experiences of a young kid not that various to them, regardless of the range in years.

You never ever understand, there might even be another Charlie Chaplin among them.

When they're not tasering one-legged 92-year-old males or nicking individuals for publishing hurty words on the internet, the police are significantly taking second jobs to supplement their income.

Some are working as painters and decorators, others as scaffolders nand shipment motorists. More intriguingly, second tasks likewise include a DJ (PC Hammer, anyone?) and a reiki trainer, whatever that is.

My favourites are beekeeper and kickboxing coach, although the copper running a tea shop needs to take the biscuit.

It's also reported that some officers are working as supermarket checkout assistants. I don't expect there's any danger of them nicking a couple of thiefs.

Mind how you go.

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First the frogs, now the octopuses The illegal migrant armada crossing the Channel daily might turn out to be the least of our problems. We now find out that a fleet of foreign octopuses from the Med is feasting on crab stocks off the coast of Devon and Cornwall and threatening to put local fishermen out of organization.

It's bad enough French trawlers hoovering up our fish without migrant molluscs helping themselves to what's left.

We're likewise informed that parakeets from India and Pakistan are an 'unstoppable intrusive types' having actually escaped into the wild and are colonising cities as far afield as Plymouth and Aberdeen. No doubt we'll be putting them up in the nearby Holiday Inn eventually.

Which's before I get to the buzzard that's been dive-bombing kids in a school playground in Romford, Essex. Where the hell did that come from?

We have actually got enough problem with home-grown Stuka-style pigeons without importing kamikaze buzzards.

Take Labour's 'aspiration' to spend a pitiful three percent of GDP on defence by the year 2525 with a shovel-load of Maldon's finest. The way Rachel From Complaints is taxing the economy to death, there will not be any GDP left in a couple of years' time. And three percent of stuff all is still pack all.

AN NHS cosmetic surgeon who compared Islamist terrorists to the Nazis has been struck off. If he 'd said the same about those people who wish to leave the European yuman rites convention, Surkeir would have made him Attorney general of the United States.

Having just recently claimed that the initial ancient Britons were black, the woke revisionists now allege the Vikings were Muslims. Don't these individuals ever take a day of rest?