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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: White Working Class Children have Been Betrayed
작성일작성일: 2025-07-05 00:23
Saturday night at eight found me not at the movies but at the Cinema Museum, a concealed gem near the Oval cricket ground in South London, situated in a former workhouse which was quickly home to the young Charlie Chaplin after his mother fell on hard times.
Truth be told, I hardly ever endeavor south of the river. As Dave, from the Winchester Club, warned Arthur Daley: 'Great deal of very wicked people' in Sarf Lunnon.
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.
George read from his collection of short stories embeded in the 1950s, when he was maturing in post-war Bradford. They're beautifully written, warm, amusing, evocative, a piece of history, a working-class variation of Richmal Crompton's Just William experiences.
The storylines are based upon the trials and tribulations of a young boy being raised by a single mom - an unconventional family life at that time, sadly just too typical today. The Fib And Other Stories has remained in print considering that 1975 and discovered its way on to the school curriculum, where it stays today.
I can't assist questioning, however, how typically these marvelous texts are used in class nowadays, in between teachers packing their pupils' little heads with fashionable far-Left propaganda about 'white advantage', manifest destiny and, of course, climate change.
The kids in the monochrome school photo which formed the background to George's reading were certainly white, but no one could have described them as fortunate. Those were the days when 'austerity' meant living from hand to mouth, not having to go for a basic 50in flat screen TV, rather of a 65in OLED Ultra model, and only having the ability to manage an iPhone 14 rather than the current all-singing, all-dancing AI version.
Child hardship was real, bread-and-dripping, holes-in-your-shoes things, not dining on Deliveroo and reluctantly wearing last season's Nike fitness instructors.
Until the digital/social media transformation, kids gained their knowledge mainly from books, writes Littlejohn
In the 1950s, children experienced real difficulty, not the hardship of ambition and imagination which blights this generation, through no fault of their own. Today, kids live via their smart phones, rather of roaming free and experiencing life to the complete.
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