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Darren McGarvey: The State We're In review - Leftie rapper's solution to rising crime is pathetically predictable, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


The State We're In (BBC2) sent rapper and Left-wing author Darren McGarvey to look at policing and the prison service

The solutions he offered to Britain’s spiralling crime problems were so pathetically predictable, I had to check this wasn’t a satire — boxing gyms to keep young men out of trouble, and recording studios where prisoners can express their creativity. Before visiting a jail in Norway where the cells resemble budget hotel rooms, he taunted viewers: ‘I feel like I’m going to have to give a trigger warning to hundreds of thousands of rural conservatives who have never had any dealings with the police or the criminal justice system. Chi inherits their house (to the fury of spiteful Auntie Karen, played by the brilliant Selin Hizli) and a bucket list of things to do: learn to tell the time, do the washing up, show some sort of compassion for another human being.

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