Showing posts with label Responsible Child. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Responsible Child. Show all posts
Saturday, December 06, 2025

Sally Ann Howes couldn't cry for toffees: Why have child actors got so much better?

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Embed from Getty Images I watched the 1945 Ealing period drama Pink String and Sealing Wax the other day. In it, the always-wonderful Googie...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Bring Her Back: A film about grief

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I'm not a great one for horror films, but I was intrigued by what I'd heard of Bring Her Back. So I went to see it while I was in Sh...
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Responsible Child: When the facts come before the drama

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The success of the Netflix series Adolescence, and my doubts as to how far it reflects reality, has put me in mind of the BBC television pla...
Sunday, April 02, 2023

Shakin' Stevens: All You Need is Greed

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A friend sent me the link to this video saying "Shakey is now Johnny Cash meets the Manics," and he's right. This is really go...
Tuesday, August 02, 2022

The Spectator tries to have fun with Liz Truss's Lib Dem past again, but she made more sense in those days

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Liz Truss once suggested that "the age of criminal responsibility should come to us with the right to vote" in an article titled ...
Saturday, July 09, 2022

Hammer House of Podcast on The Nanny

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The scariest things I watched on television when I was young were Don Taylor's television play The Exorcism , a cross between folk horro...
Saturday, May 15, 2021

Billy Barratt wins an International Emmy

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I have blogged several times about the BBC television play Responsible Child, which looked at the way the British legal system deals with ch...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Commons justice committee calls for review of age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales

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The Commons Justice Committee has called on the government to review the age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales. In its report...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Lord Dholakia's campaign to raise the age of criminal responsibility

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The BBC play Responsible Child , shown just before Christmas, questioned the low age of criminal responsibility in Britain and in particul...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Responsible Child and moves to raise the age of criminal responsibility

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If the test of a good drama is that you find yourself thinking about it days later then Responsible Child passes that test. It is quite...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Responsible Child and moral philosophy

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Lord Bonkers' Well-Behaved Orphans were originally a bit of a joke against myself. Because of an unhappy period in my own childhood,...