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...Meadows, who admits to once being a "skin" himself, argues that skinheads were amongst Britain's first anti-racists, mixing with newly arrived waves of West Indian immigrants with whom they indulged a mutual love of reggae and ska. Hailing from a staunchly working-class background, Meadows, 35, dropped out of school as a teenager and later made his first films while subsisting on welfare benefits in his native Nottingham. He hit critical acclaim with his 1999 second feature, A Room for Romeo Brass, set in a Yorkshire mining town on the skids...
...begins Meadows' film, set in Uttoxeter, the heart of Britain's former industrial midlands. It's 1983 and this declining seaside town is fired up on royal weddings and Thatcherism. A brown-skinned local businessman occasionally has to deal with racist slogans spray-painted outside his shop, but it's a world away from the violent anti-immigrant demonstrations taking place elsewhere in the country...
...Meadows' attempts to humanize skinheads is a world away from the knee-jerk negative characterizations that informed cinema's previous depictions of the subculture as uniformly racist and violent. While it may be true that far-right parties no longer play any part in Britain's mainstream political discourse, other extremist movements are rising in Europe. And with the invasion of Iraq and rise in Islamophobia, Meadows suggests that This is England could be as much a warning for England's present as it is a depiction of its past...
...courtroom to five British-raised terrorists for their involvement in a conspiracy to commit mass murder. The branch of the U.K.'s security service known as MI5 foiled the plot before any blood was spilled, but its success cloaks a tragic failure. That, at least, is the judgment of Britain's media...
...means unique to France was not given justice in your article [April 16]. For proof, you only need to look across the English Channel at my homeland. Despite the overwhelming attention given to the recent arrival of many immigrants, a disconcerting number of talented but disillusioned youngsters are leaving Britain. There is very little overt racial discrimination and harassment, and there are still job opportunities, but the perfect, rose-tinted perception of a country ascending on the back of economic growth is increasingly at odds with the subtle realities of adversity, bias and inequality endured by many here...