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[reference.com](https://www.reference.com/business-finance/many-nhs-hospitals-england-2eda0a7765398d04?ad=dirN&qo=paaIndex&o=740005&origq=nhs)<br>Saturday night at 8 o'clock found me not at the films however at the Cinema Museum, a hidden gem near the Oval cricket ground in South London, located in a former workhouse which was briefly home to the young Charlie Chaplin after his mother fell on tough times.<br>[faqtoids.com](https://www.faqtoids.com/knowledge/comprehensive-guide-nhs-nurse-jobs-scotland?ad=dirN&qo=serpIndex&o=740006&origq=nhs)
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<br>Truth be informed, I rarely venture south of the river. As Dave, from the Winchester Club, alerted Arthur Daley: 'Lot of extremely wicked individuals' in Sarf Lunnon.<br>
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<br>Coincidentally, the occasion was a one-man program by my old mate George Layton, star, director, scriptwriter, author, whose finest hour - a minimum of to my mind - was playing Des, the dodgy car mechanic in Minder.<br>
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<br>George read from his collection of narratives embeded in the 1950s, when he was maturing in post-war Bradford. They're magnificently composed, warm, funny, evocative, a piece of history, a working-class version of Richmal Crompton's Just William experiences.<br>
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<br>The stories are based upon the trials and adversities of a boy being raised by a single mom - a non-traditional family life back then, regretfully only too common today. The Fib And Other Stories has remained in print given that 1975 and found its method on to the school curriculum, where it stays today.<br>
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<br>I can't assist questioning, though, how typically these remarkable texts are used in class nowadays, in between teachers packing their students' little heads with trendy far-Left propaganda about 'white opportunity', colonialism and, of course, environment change.<br>
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<br>The kids in the monochrome school photo which formed the backdrop to George's reading were certainly white, however nobody could have explained them as privileged. Those were the days when 'austerity' meant living from hand to mouth, not needing to choose a basic 50in flat screen TV, rather of a 65in OLED Ultra design, and just having the ability to afford an iPhone 14 rather than the latest all-singing, all-dancing AI version.<br>
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<br>Child poverty was genuine, bread-and-dripping, holes-in-your-shoes things, not dining on Deliveroo and reluctantly using last season's Nike trainers.<br>
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<br>Until the digital/social media transformation, kids got their knowledge primarily from books, composes Littlejohn<br>
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<br>In the 1950s, kids experienced authentic hardship, not the hardship of ambition and creativity which blights this generation, through no fault of their own. Today, kids live via their smart phones, rather of roaming totally free and experiencing life to the full.<br>
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<br>Until the digital/social media transformation, kids got their understanding mostly from books. Yes, TV played a huge role, as did the motion pictures, but no place near the supremacy of TikTok and other apps offering pleasure principle in byte-sized pieces.<br>
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<br>And how can squinting at the current CGI created blockbuster on a mobile phone a couple of inches wide ever compare to the type of old-school, big screen, Technicolor and Cinemascope, best-out-of-Hollywood experience celebrated at the Cinema Museum?<br>
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<br>It can't. Just as the very best pictures are said to be on the radio, even better photos can be found in the printed word.<br>
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<br>Among the most depressing things I've checked out just recently was the author Anthony Horowitz bemoaning the truth that his 300-page books are far too long to engage the much shorter attention spans of today's children.<br>
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<br>Not surprising that child, and certainly adult, literacy levels have actually dropped amazingly. All this has contributed to the shocking revelation that white, working class pupils - boys in particular - are being left. Even Labour's Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has been forced to confess they have been 'betrayed' by the modern schools system.<br>
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<br>They suffer from a lack of adult participation and consequent paucity of goal. The white, working class boy in George Layton's stories certainly didn't suffer any adult overlook from his imperious mum. Nor did he do not have imagination or aspiration.<br>
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<br>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 grew up in poverty in close-by pre-war Leeds.<br>
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<br>Literacy is the best present we can bestow on any kid. My grandmas taught me to check out before I went to school, setting me on the early road to a satisfying career at the wordface rather than the relative drudgery of the office.<br>
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<br>George Layton is considering taking his one-man show on the roadway, to little provincial theatres. I've got a better concept.<br>
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<br>If the Education Secretary wishes to reverse the betrayal of white, working class kids she could start by getting the phone and welcoming George to tour schools, checking out from his narratives.<br>
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<br>I honestly believe that if they could be persuaded to look up from their mobiles for an hour, they 'd be enthralled and inspired by the experiences of a young boy not that various to them, despite the distance in years.<br>
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<br>You never understand, there might even be another Charlie Chaplin among them.<br>
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<br>When they're not tasering one-legged 92-year-old males or nicking individuals for posting hurty words on the web, the police are progressively taking second jobs to supplement their earnings.<br>
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<br>Some are working as painters and designers, others as scaffolders nand delivery chauffeurs. More intriguingly, sidelines likewise of a DJ (PC Hammer, anyone?) and a reiki trainer, whatever that is.<br>
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<br>My favourites are beekeeper and kickboxing coach, although the copper running a tea store needs to take the biscuit.<br>
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<br>It's also reported that some officers are working as grocery store checkout assistants. I don't expect there's any threat of them nicking a few shoplifters.<br>
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<br>Mind how you go.<br>
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<br>RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Couple in their 70s who purchased a child from a complete stranger are self-centered in the severe<br>
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<br>First the frogs, now the octopuses
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The prohibited migrant armada crossing the Channel daily may turn out to be the least of our issues. 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 fishermen out of service.<br>
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<br>It's bad enough French trawlers hoovering up our fish without migrant molluscs assisting themselves to what's left.<br>
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<br>We're likewise told that parakeets from India and Pakistan are an 'unstoppable intrusive 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 nearest Holiday Inn soon.<br>
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<br>And that's before I get to the buzzard that's been dive-bombing kids in a [school play](https://twentyfiveseven.co.uk/mission/) area in Romford, Essex. Where the hell did that originated from?<br>
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<br>We've got enough problem with home-grown Stuka-style pigeons without importing kamikaze buzzards.<br>
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<br>Take Labour's 'aspiration' to invest a worthless 3 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 will not be any GDP left in a couple of years' time. And three per cent of stuff all is still pack all.<br>
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<br>AN [NHS](https://twentyfiveseven.co.uk/mission/) surgeon who compared Islamist terrorists to the Nazis has actually been struck off. If he 'd stated the exact same about those people who wish to leave the European yuman rites convention, Surkeir would have made him Chief law officer.<br>
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<br>Having recently declared that the original ancient Britons were black, the woke revisionists now declare the Vikings were Muslims. Don't these people ever take a day of rest?<br>
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