Does Prime Minister Keir Starmer understand the difference between fact and fiction? Mr S isn’t so sure – after the Labour leader referred to the new Netflix series Adolescence as a documentary for the, er, second time. Either Sir Keir is ignorant about what exactly the show is – which, given he has referred to it multiple times before, would be rather baffling – or the PM has missed the point that the series is not actually real. It’s hardly a good look…
Speaking about toxic behaviour in young men, the Prime Minister spoke primly to a roundtable on Monday about the lessons that can be learned from Adolescence. ‘What can we do as a society to stop and prevent young boys being dragged into this whirlpool of hatred and misogyny?’ he questioned, before going on:
And it is young boys predominantly, and in this particular instance. But also how can we protect young girls at risk, because obviously that is a very strong feature of the documentary, the drama.
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