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+<br>Saturday night at eight o'clock found me not at the movies but at the Cinema Museum, a hidden 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 mom fell on hard times.<br>
+<br>Truth be informed, I hardly ever endeavor south of the river. As Dave, from the Winchester Club, warned Arthur Daley: 'Lot of really wicked individuals' in Sarf Lunnon.<br>
+<br>Coincidentally, the celebration was a one-man show by my old mate George Layton, star, director, scriptwriter, author, whose finest hour - at least to my mind - was playing Des, the dodgy cars and truck mechanic in Minder.<br>
+<br>George was checking out from his collection of brief stories embeded in the 1950s, when he was maturing in post-war Bradford. They're beautifully composed, warm, amusing, evocative, a piece of history, a working-class variation of Richmal Crompton's Just William experiences.<br>
+<br>The stories are based on the trials and tribulations of a boy being brought up by a single mother - an unconventional household life at that time, sadly just too typical today. The Fib And Other Stories has actually remained in print considering that 1975 and discovered its method on to the school curriculum, where it stays today.<br>
+<br>I can't assist questioning, however, how often these marvelous texts are utilized in class these days, in between teachers packing their pupils' little heads with trendy far-Left propaganda about 'white advantage', colonialism and, obviously, climate change.<br>
+<br>The kids in the monochrome school photograph which formed the backdrop to George's reading were definitely white, but nobody could have described them as fortunate. Those were the days when 'austerity' implied living from hand to mouth, not having to opt for a fundamental 50in flat screen TV, instead of a 65in OLED Ultra model, and just being able to manage an iPhone 14 rather than the latest all-singing, all-dancing AI version.<br>
+<br>Child poverty was real, bread-and-dripping, holes-in-your-shoes things, not dining on Deliveroo and unwillingly using last season's Nike trainers.<br>
+<br>Until the digital/social media transformation, children got their knowledge mainly from books, composes Littlejohn<br>
+<br>In the 1950s, children experienced authentic challenge, not the hardship of ambition and imagination which blights this generation, through no fault of their own. Today, kids live through their smart phones, rather of roaming complimentary and experiencing life to the complete.<br>
+<br>Until the digital/social media transformation, children gained their understanding mainly from books. Yes, TV played a huge function, as did the movies, however nowhere near the supremacy of TikTok and other apps providing pleasure principle in byte-sized chunks.<br>
+<br>And how can squinting at the newest CGI created blockbuster on a cellular phone a few inches wide ever compare with the sort of old-school, cinema, Technicolor and Cinemascope, best-out-of-Hollywood experience commemorated at the [Cinema Museum](https://twentyfiveseven.co.uk/jobs-listing/)?<br>
+<br>It can't. Just as the best images are said to be on the radio, even better pictures can be discovered in the printed word.<br>
+<br>Among the most dismaying things I've checked out recently was the author Anthony Horowitz regreting the reality that his 300-page books are far too long to engage the much shorter attention periods these days's children.<br>
+<br>No surprise kid, and indeed adult, literacy levels have plunged amazingly. All this has actually contributed to the shocking revelation that white, working class students - young boys in particular - are being left behind. Even Labour's Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has been required to confess they have actually been 'betrayed' by the modern schools system.<br>
+<br>They struggle with a lack of adult participation and following scarceness of goal. The white, working class kid in George Layton's stories certainly didn't suffer any parental disregard from his domineering mum. Nor did he do not have creativity or goal.<br>
+<br>Education was the escape of poverty. It produced significant 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.<br>
+<br>Literacy is the biggest present 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 fulfilling profession at the wordface instead of the relative drudgery of the workplace.<br>
+<br>George Layton is thinking about taking his one-man show on the roadway, to small provincial theatres. I've got a better concept.<br>
+<br>If the Education Secretary wishes to reverse the betrayal of white, working class kids she might begin by getting the phone and  to tour schools, checking out from his short stories.<br>
+<br>I honestly believe that if they could be encouraged to search for from their mobiles for an hour, they 'd be enthralled and influenced by the experiences of a young kid not that different to them, regardless of the distance in years.<br>
+<br>You never understand, there may even be another Charlie Chaplin amongst them.<br>
+<br>When they're not tasering one-legged 92-year-old males or nicking people for posting hurty words on the internet, the police are increasingly taking second jobs to supplement their earnings.<br>
+<br>Some are working as painters and decorators, others as scaffolders nand shipment drivers. More intriguingly, sidelines likewise consist of a DJ (PC Hammer, anyone?) and a reiki instructor, whatever that is.<br>
+<br>My favourites are beekeeper and kickboxing coach, although the copper running a tea store needs to take the biscuit.<br>
+<br>It's likewise reported that some officers are working as supermarket checkout assistants. I don't suppose there's any risk of them nicking a couple of thiefs.<br>
+<br>Mind how you go.<br>
+<br>RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Couple in their 70s who bought a baby from a complete stranger are selfish in the severe<br>
+<br>First the frogs, now the octopuses
+The unlawful migrant armada crossing the Channel daily might end up being the least of our issues. We now learn 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 company.<br>
+<br>It's bad enough French trawlers hoovering up our fish without migrant molluscs helping themselves to what's left.<br>
+<br>We're likewise told that parakeets from India and Pakistan are an 'unstoppable invasive types' having gotten away into the wild and are colonising cities as far afield as Plymouth and Aberdeen. No doubt we'll be putting them up in the nearest Holiday Inn eventually.<br>
+<br>Which's before I get to the buzzard that's been dive-bombing kids in a school play area in Romford, Essex. Where the hell did that come from?<br>
+<br>We have actually got enough trouble with home-grown Stuka-style pigeons without importing kamikaze buzzards.<br>
+<br>Take Labour's 'ambition' to spend a pathetic three percent of GDP on defence by the year 2525 with a shovel-load of Maldon's finest. The method Rachel From Complaints is taxing the economy to death, there won't be any GDP left in a few years' time. And three per cent of stuff all is still pack all.<br>
+<br>AN [NHS](https://twentyfiveseven.co.uk/mission/) surgeon who compared Islamist terrorists to the Nazis has actually been struck off. If he 'd said the exact same about those people who want to leave the European yuman rites convention, Surkeir would have made him Attorney general of the United States.<br>
+<br>Having just recently declared that the initial ancient Britons were black, the woke revisionists now allege the Vikings were Muslims. Don't these people ever take a day off?<br>