Adolescence demonises white working-class boys

This is an extract from today’s episode of Spectator TV, with Toby Young and James Walton, which you can find at the bottom of this page:

I wasn’t all that overbowled by the series. I think one of the reasons it’s met with such a chorus of approval, particularly in the mainstream media, is because it’s just repeating back to the liberal metropolitan elite what they already think about the causes of knife crime and the dangers that influencers like Andrew Tate pose to women and girls. We’re in this sort of incredible loop. There might be a less polite term for it, but let’s call it a loop in which the metropolitan liberal elite make a television program, a fictional drama which exemplifies all their groupthink, and then cite it as evidence, subsequently, that that groupthink is spot on.

I mean, at one point, Keir Starmer – and incidentally, the production company that made Adolescence was part state-funded – Keir Starmer described it, in a slip of the tongue, as a ‘documentary’ in the House of Commons, and I think that is how it’s viewed.