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Saturday night at 8 o'clock discovered me not at the motion pictures however at the Cinema Museum, a covert gem near the Oval cricket ground in South London, located in a previous workhouse which was quickly home to the young Charlie Chaplin after his mother fell on tough times.
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Truth be told, I hardly ever venture south of the river. As Dave, from the Club, alerted Arthur Daley: 'Great deal of really wicked people' in Sarf Lunnon.
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Coincidentally, the occasion was a one-man show by my old mate George Layton, actor, director, scriptwriter, author, whose finest hour - at least to my mind - was playing Des, the dodgy car mechanic in Minder.
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George was reading from his collection of short stories embeded in the 1950s, when he was maturing in post-war Bradford. They're magnificently written, warm, funny, expressive, a piece of history, a working-class version of Richmal Crompton's Just William adventures.
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The storylines are based on the trials and tribulations of a young boy being raised by a single mom - a non-traditional household life at that time, unfortunately just too typical today. The Fib And Other Stories has been in print considering that 1975 and discovered its method on to the school curriculum, where it remains today.
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I can't help questioning, though, how often these glorious texts are utilized in class nowadays, in between teachers packing their pupils' little heads with stylish far-Left propaganda about 'white privilege', colonialism and, obviously, environment change.
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The kids in the monochrome school photograph which formed the background to George's reading were certainly white, but no one could have explained them as fortunate. Those were the days when 'austerity' implied living from hand to mouth, not needing to go for a basic 50in flat screen TV, instead of a 65in OLED Ultra model, and only having the ability to afford an iPhone 14 rather than the most recent all-singing, all-dancing AI version.
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Child hardship was genuine, bread-and-dripping, holes-in-your-shoes things, not dining on Deliveroo and reluctantly using last season's Nike trainers.
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Until the digital/social media revolution, children acquired their understanding mostly from books, writes Littlejohn
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In the 1950s, children experienced real challenge, not the hardship of ambition and imagination which blights this generation, through no fault of their own. Today, kids live via their cellphones, rather of strolling complimentary and experiencing life to the full.
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Until the digital/social media transformation, kids acquired their understanding mainly from books. Yes, TV played a big function, as did the motion pictures, but nowhere near the domination of TikTok and other apps providing pleasure principle in byte-sized portions.
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And how can squinting at the current CGI generated smash hit on a cellphone a few inches broad ever compare with the kind of old-school, cinema, Technicolor and Cinemascope, best-out-of-Hollywood experience commemorated at the Cinema Museum?
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It can't. Just as the finest images are said to be on the radio, even better pictures can be discovered in the [printed](https://twentyfiveseven.co.uk/mission/) word.
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One of the most dismal things I have actually read recently was the author Anthony Horowitz bemoaning the truth that his 300-page books are far too long to engage the shorter attention periods of today's kids.
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Not surprising that child, and undoubtedly adult, literacy levels have plummeted alarmingly. All this has actually contributed to the shocking discovery that white, working class pupils - kids in particular - are being left behind. Even Labour's Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has actually been required to confess they have actually been 'betrayed' by the modern-day schools system.
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They experience a lack of parental participation and following scarceness of goal. The white, working class young boy in George Layton's stories definitely didn't suffer any parental neglect from his domineering mum. Nor did he do not have imagination or goal.
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Education was the way out 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 nearby pre-war Leeds.
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Literacy is the best present we can bestow on any kid. My grandmothers taught me to read before I went to school, setting me on the early roadway to a fulfilling profession at the wordface instead of the relative drudgery of the work environment.
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George Layton is considering taking his one-man show on the road, to small provincial theatres. I've got a much better idea.
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If the Education Secretary desires to reverse the betrayal of white, working class kids she could begin by getting the phone and welcoming George to explore schools, checking out from his narratives.
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I honestly think that if they might be encouraged to look up from their mobiles for an hour, they 'd be enthralled and inspired by the adventures of a young boy not that various to them, regardless of the range in decades.
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You never ever know, there might even be another Charlie Chaplin among them.
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When they're not tasering one-legged 92-year-old males or nicking people for publishing hurty words on the web, the police are progressively taking sidelines to supplement their income.
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Some are working as painters and designers, others as scaffolders nand shipment chauffeurs. More intriguingly, second tasks likewise include a DJ (PC Hammer, anyone?) and a reiki trainer, whatever that is.
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My favourites are beekeeper and kickboxing coach, although the copper running a tea store has to take the biscuit.
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It's likewise reported that some officers are working as supermarket checkout assistants. I do not expect there's any danger of them nicking a couple of thiefs.
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Mind how you go.
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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Couple in their 70s who bought an infant from a stranger are self-centered in the extreme
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First the frogs, now the octopuses +The unlawful migrant armada crossing the Channel daily may 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 regional anglers out of service.
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It's bad enough French trawlers hoovering up our fish without migrant molluscs assisting themselves to what's left.
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We're also informed that parakeets from India and Pakistan are an 'unstoppable invasive types' having 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 closest Holiday Inn before long.
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And that'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 originated from?
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We have actually got enough difficulty with home-grown Stuka-style pigeons without importing kamikaze buzzards.
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Take Labour's 'ambition' to spend a pathetic three per cent 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 won't be any GDP left in a few years' time. And 3 percent of stuff all is still stuff all.
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AN [NHS](https://twentyfiveseven.co.uk/mission/) cosmetic surgeon who compared Islamist terrorists to the Nazis has actually been struck off. If he 'd stated the same about those people who want to leave the European yuman rites convention, Surkeir would have made him Attorney general of the United States.
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Having recently declared that the original ancient Britons were black, the woke deconstructionists now allege the Vikings were Muslims. Don't these individuals ever take a day of rest?
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