In the UK in the 2000s there was no word that could invoke as much anger as the word Chavs. No-one wanted to know one, no-one wanted to be called on, and no-one wanted to be one, but somehow they were everywhere … Where did they all go? JimmytheGiant podcast: The Death of the Most Hated Sub-Culture: Chavs
A staple of all chavs: Burberry. ibid.
Happy slapping became a national emergency. ibid.
The ASBO put restrictions on your life … a badge of honour. ibid.
[David Cameron]: ‘These are sickening scenes. Scenes of people looting, vandalizing, thieving, robbing, and it has to be confronted and defeated.’ JimmytheGiant podcast: The Forgotten Riots that Almost Destroyed London
For 5 days straight in the summer of 2011 England turned into The Purge. This was an insane time to live through. ibid.
The biggest riots in modern British history. ibid.
Rumours very quickly started to circulate. ibid.
Very hard to pinpoint the exact moment it went from a peaceful protest into a full-scale riot. ibid.
A very different Britain that doesn’t get a lot of publicity. ibid.
‘Owen Jones: Why chavs were the riots’ scapegoats’. ibid. online article 01 May 2012
The next morning the nation woke up in shock. We were now getting reports of the aftermath of the riots: entire buildings had been burnt to the ground, 26 policemen were injured, 55 arrests were made, cars were set on fire, and shops were being looted. ibid.
These copy-cat riots were popping up in all parts of London. ibid.
The police officer was the one who shot the other police officer, and Mark Duggan hadn’t shot anyone. ibid.
The UK has become synonymous with this image of rising knife crimes. We see these police pictures of some of the weapons they seize … How bad is this problem really? … Are they helping or making the problem worse? JimmytheGiant podcast: How Britain Created a Knife Crime ‘Epidemic’
The term ‘knife crime’ was an unofficial label. ibid.
The study claims that throughout what the media are labelling a ‘knife crime epidemic’, knife usage as a percentage of all violent crime consistently remained between 5% and 8% of all offences. ibid.
British gangsters – we love ’em … After Peaky Blinders I started looking at flat caps in Next. JimmytheGiant podcast: The Brutal Evolution of British Gang Culture
The Scuttlers started to make a name for themselves in the 1870s as violence between different groups of Scuttlers would pop off in Manchester. ibid.
Leading us to the Peaky Blinders! … It was based on a young gang from Birmingham … How crime started to become more organised. ibid.
The Battle of Cable Street: This was a crazy very important moment in British history. ibid.
A very Londoncentric view of gang culture. ibid.
Gangs in a sad way offer an identity and family unit. ibid.
Back in the 60s through to the late 80s, if you had this haircut, it was very likely that you were part of Britain’s most feared and controversial sub-culture: Skinheads. JimmytheGiant podcast: The Death of Britain’s Most Feared Subculture
Rude Boys would meet a very English subculture: The Mods. ibid.
Another fun group of bros called the Hippies … just too nice. ibid.
1969 is considered the golden age of the skinhead. ibid.
In the 2000s worred parents had a new concern over what little Billy and Becky were doing in their free time. JimmytheGiant podcast: The Forgotten Legal High Crisis that Ruined Britain
The 90s: All of the youth of the day are heading to these exciting and scary things called Raves. ibid.
Websites would start to pop up selling a thing called Research Chemicals. ibid.
The Brits: We gave Americans their language, we gave them their legal system, we gave them the Beatles, and in return they gave us fighting over Black Friday deals, and obesity … Britain has kind of lost its influence, and has slowly turned more and more into the nation that it created. JimmytheGiant podcast: The Americanisation of Britain
We might not have had slavery but we were definitely benefitting off of it. ibid.
The American dollar had overtaken the British pound to become the dominant global currency. ibid.
Thatcher went on to tear down the British-style post-war consensus. ibid.
This Americanised attitude would exist long after Thatcher. ibid.
Britain has felt increasingly Americanised in nearly every aspect. ibid.
What once started as a way of lifting the British working class out of slums has over time just descended into these crime-ridden dilapidated areas. JimmytheGiant podcast: The Evil Decline of Britain’s Dystopia Estates
The Boundary Estate: They found out that the rent was double that of the slums. ibid.
A new dope-strain of architecture called Modernism. ibid.
Brutalism was like a reaction to Modernism. ibid.
A beach holiday in Britain might sound like a cruel joke but believe me for a long time this was the peak of upper-class British culture. JimmytheGiant podcast: The Evil Decline of Britain’s Seaside Towns
In 1787 the Brighton Pavilion was built. ibid.
Giving rise to what is known as the Brits abroad. ibid.
The fall from grace for the British seaside towns … became the worst places in Britain. ibid.
Blackpool: The highest crime rate in the country. ibid.
The decline of Britain is becoming a Youtube niche. ibid.
His films would explore the dark gritty underworld of humanity. Despite the success and praise he’s received, his style has been very controversial since the beginning. JimmytheGiant podcast: Louis Theroux: A Confusing Genius
Michael Moore is a very controversial character … Everything Louis Theroux isn’t. ibid.
Louis would make one of the biggest mistakes of his entire career: Jimmy Savile. ibid.
Louis Theroux gets accused of giving a voice to very dangerous, radical, extreme people. ibid.
The British hardman archetype is one of the most popular characters in television and film. JimmytheGiant podcast: The British Tough Guy Trope
Ross Kemp was an absolute madman. ibid.
Ricky [Gervais] might be the most unlikely superstar on Earth … Rising to the top of Hollywood before they eventually lost control of him. JimmytheGiant podcast: Ricky Gervais: The Most Hated Man in Hollywood
‘If you win, right, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your God, and fuck off.’ ibid. Gervais presents award ceremony
We here a lot these days that Britain is being ‘invaded’. JimmytheGiant podcast: The Real Foreign Invasion of Britain
City of London: Transactions between two non-residents of Britain who were using foreign currencies were no longer banned by UK regulation … Legally, they were outside of British jurisdiction. ibid.
As you would expect, the money came a-pouring in to the City of London … This unregulated, shadowy market. ibid.
The City of London had established a second British empire. ibid.
‘London has become the Dirty Money capital of the world.’ iibid. TV news
Africa: Massive massive amounts of wealth is just being siphoned out, completely distabilizing whole countries, forcing people to migrate and leave their homes. ibid.