Many years ago, as part of a university degree i was completing (in English Literature with Linguistics), i wrote a dissertation on the so-called ‘Angry Young Man’ movement that emerged in the post-war years. This was a catch-all term for those ‘working-class’ writers, many of whom had taken some part in the military by way of National Service and had come, through their experiences, to the realisation that Britain was a sick state, riddled with poverty, divided along social lines and ruled by an elite autocracy, fashioned and shaped by way of a two-tier education system. One of the […]