There are now Peaky tours and experiences, Peaky restaurants and even Peaky weddings.
Not since the Krays has organised crime been so popular, and whoever thought flatcaps would come back so hard and fast?
The reality is very different. The Britain of 1920, while materially poor, war-ravaged, and full of ideological strife, was remarkably staid and safe compared even to today. It may even have been one of the safest societies ever to have existed.
There were roughly 65 times as many violent crimes per police constable in 2015 (6.55) than in 1951 (0.1). It is little wonder they do not solve many of them anymore.
One fact that Peaky Blinder amusingly does get right is the easy availability of weapons. There were virtually no gun laws in Britain until the Firearms Act of 1920, while our police, of course, have always been unarmed.
This state of affairs, of a virtually crime-free country in which anyone might carry a gun but the police, should really astonish any remotely thoughtful person.
Whole university departments should be devoted to its study, and yet, all we have are the Peaky Fooking Blinders.
Portraying the past accurately is very difficult, and easy to do badly, often more through laziness than spite.
Peaky Britain is certainly sexed up for our entertainment. It would hardly be fun to watch otherwise, would it?
But it is not real, and while you should enjoy your Peaky Diner and your flat cap, you should not let your view of the past be coloured by this stuff.
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This is a crucial point. The right, especially the mainstream, often operates on an ideological level only, and not a practical one. They whinge about wokeness, occasionally making an effort to explain that communism is Bad Actually... and that's it.
For all that the Right often claims to be "anti-intellectual", these people do little other than talking. They hope that if they explain their opinion, often enough, in slow, clear English, as if to a foreign waiter, the system will correct itself.
Many of around Monbiot's age and background feel this way. The postwar generations grew up in a shabby Britain, still full of bomb craters. They were restless and bored, and their reaction was to try to destroy everything around themselves in a wave of nihilism and spite.
Some of his generation eventually grew up and realised what they had done. Most never did, and never will.
If you want to understand the mindset of these people, and how truly resentful they are of the "stifling" Britain in which they grew up, I suggest you watch "If...", despite it being quite a bad film. It was released in 1968.
People lamenting the state of higher education in Britain fail to understand its purpose, which is in part to hide youth unemployment and make the young pay their own dole via loans, but more vitally it serves Britain's grand geopolitical strategy.
Britain hosts almost a quarter of a million Chinese students. It charges them more than ten thousand pounds a year to let them pretend to have written their own essays for three years, at which point they are given a certificate with fake gold leaf on it, and then sent home.
Back in China, these alumni build tower blocks that fall down, vehicles that explode at random and escalators that eat you. They hold three-hour meetings with "Product Managers" that do not decide anything.
What is interesting about this argument is not that it is silly (though it is), but that it is so old.
That legalising/regulating some behaviour will result in less of it has been argued variously for prostitution, drugs, abortions, divorce and immigration for almost a century.
In each and every case, the behaviour that was supposed to diminish in frequency as a result of liberalisation has, in fact, increased.
Now, the people who make these arguments are generally not stupid. Indeed, they are normally well-educated and middle-class.
Yet, when you wave the results of these policies in the faces of those who advocated them, they will do their best to ignore you, or call you names.
Which leads us inevitably to the only conclusion possible: That they do not, in fact, want less of whatever they are liberalising.
This would have it that telling someone that they do not need to change sex, that they could be happy as they are, is itself a "conversion" therapy. It is surely the opposite, because they would not then be converting from or to anything.
Transgenderism is not only trans about gender. One has to contort oneself into a kind of meta-transgenderism for it to make sense.
This is why T'ism is such a LW wedge. All the other acceptance movements about "being who you really are" presume "who you really are" is the way you were born. Not so with T'ism, which is the opposite. The way you were born is the oppressive prison.