The Left has become completely obsessed with the fictional TV show 'Adolescence', with the BBC having run dozens of articles. But how useful is it for understanding violence in Britain?
Backlash against Keir Starmer's plan to show the Netflix drama Adolescence in schools has grown after more than 1,500 teachers and parents signed a letter saying the series is not suitable as an educational resource.
People who want to understand teenage boys would be better off watching The Inbetweeners than Adolescence, says Joanna Gray. It captures perfectly the best and worst of adolescent boys in the pre-smartphone age.
The boys in Adolescence are constantly made to seem pathetic, childlike and contemptible. Taken along with similar shows, it feels like a demoralisation campaign against white British boys, says Laurie Wastell.
Netflix's Adolescence perpetuates the lazy trope of portraying a white boy as the perpetrator of deadly violence against girls, despite this being very rare in reality. But the Government is no better, says David Shipley.
