Hugging kindness

Lynne Reid Banks appeared on Broadcasting House on Sunday morning, reminiscing about her days as an ITN reporter in the 1950s, one of the first women appear on our news screens; she wasn’t too impressed by the portrayal of the period in the BBC tv series The Hour.

Various clips were played. The one that caught my ear – unfortunately I did not catch the name of either interviewer or interviwee – asked the question: Can Teddy Boys be cured by kindness?

Talk about hug a hoodie!

However, according to the website The Great British Teddy Boy it was “mistaken kindness and the fallacies of modern psychiatry”, which led to the lack of parental control, which turned out that generation of delinquents.

And so the argument just goes on & on.

Links
Lynne Reid Banks

The British Teddy Boy

Cameron defends 'hoodie' speech

BBC Broadcasting House

BBC ‘The Hour’