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This Is England

February 2023

  • This Is England, set in 1983, directed by Shane Meadows.

    Stop smearing anti-racist skinheads, please

    Letter: Some of them are just as warm, kind, sympathetic and thoughtful as Shane Meadows’ Woody and co, writes Dr Sean Purchase

January 2022

  • Actor Vicky McClure, in oversized pink jumper and trousers, against paler pink background, November 2021

    ‘Just go for it. Have a shot. I did – I started with nothing’: at home with Vicky McClure

    Line of Duty has made her primetime royalty and one of the UK’s most watched actors. Now Vicky McClure is paying it forward to a new generation of working-class talent

March 2020

  • This Is England: now (mostly) streaming on Stan

    Stream team
    This Is England: beloved UK drama is the tonic Australia needs right now

    Moving and delightful, there’s so much heart in this film and TV series that it feels like a testament to human resilience

August 2019

  • Joseph Gilgun

    Joseph Gilgun: ‘In a working-class community, often you're accepted for the oddball you've become'

    The This Is England actor on reliving his colourful youth for his new comedy series, being diagnosed bipolar and why it’s hard to find love when you live in a derelict house in the woods

May 2017

  • Jawbone

    Johnny Harris on Jawbone: ‘The film was always going to be about boxing and addiction’

    Having made his name playing menacing monsters in This is England and London to Brighton, the actor has written a raw drama starring Ray Winstone and Ian McShane, inspired by his earlier life

March 2016

  • daniel mays portrait

    On my radar
    On my radar: Daniel Mays’s cultural highlights

  • Sacha Baron Cohen;Rebel Wilson;Johnny Vegas<br>Sacha Baron Cohen (center-right), Johnny Vegas (center) and Rebel Wilson (center-left) in Columbia Pictures' THE BROTHERS GRIMSBY.

    Punching down: Sacha Baron Cohen and working-class cinema

February 2016

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    Your next box set
    This Is England box set review: a tumultuous trip from mod to rave

    In his uncompromising TV trilogy, Shane Meadows captures a changing Britain through the pills, thrills, fights and failings of a bunch of ex-skinhead Midlanders

October 2015

  • Jack Thorne

    This Is England writer: '92, '98, 2000? I'm ready to pen more

  • this is england 90

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: This Is England ’90; The Leftovers

September 2015

  • Comedian and actor Amy Schumer

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: August 2015

    There is an outdoor feel to this month’s gallery: John Grant in Iceland, the Unthanks in Northumberland, Yanis Varoufakis on the island of Aegina. All this and Amy Schumer too in our monthly showcase of photography commissioned by the Observer

August 2015

  • Shane Meadows.

    The Guardian profile
    Shane Meadows, chronicler of England's public and personal stories

    The director’s This is England ’90 may be the last in his series exploring Thatcher’s children; his work invites comparison to Ken Loach and Mike Leigh

July 2015

  • This Is England 90

    This Is England '90 – exclusive trailer for the Shane Meadows drama

    Another two years have passed for our troubled youths, and they’ve reached the age of rave and Madchester – but conflict is clearly never far away

June 2015

  • The entrance to the Arsenale in Venice

    The best urban buildings in the movies – readers' photos

    From the HQ of the Gattaca Corporation to the Black Bull pub from Trainspotting, you shared your favourite city buildings in film

November 2014

  • John Tiffany and Jack Thorne: ‘It’s a play about people struggling to be good’

    The duo behind vampire hit Let the Right One In talk to Rachel Cooke about their new, anti-austerity play, set in a Labour council

May 2007

  • Film blog
    The view: In a New York state of mind

    This week, film blogs descend on De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival, get annoyed at commercialism, outraged by the US military, and welcome This is England to America

April 2007

  • D'you wanna be in my gang?

  • Film blog
    Film weekly podcast

  • The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly: 26.04.2007

  • Books blog
    Cropping the skinhead image

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