Back in the Sixties a couple of lefty BBC TV guys thought up a cool idea. They would do a documentary about a group of British seven-year-olds from all walks of life. And then see what happened to them. The result was Seven Up, produced in 1964, and updated every seven years since. But what is never mentioned about the “Up Series” is the searing fact that the three cute working class girls from the east end of London have lived rather dismal lives, including lots of single-parenthood and welfare. Whereas the three upper-class (and rather priggish) seven-year-old boys have ended up living exemplary lives. The only working-class kid that did well was Tony, the son of a criminal in jail at the time of the first show; he became a London taxicab driver. But then the good old London criminal class always did know how to look after itself. The show that thought it was celebrating the rise of the working class under the tender supervision of enlightened lefty north...(Read Full Article)