Psychologists agree that these figures mark a significant trend in female behaviour particularly among younger women

Psychologists agree that these figures mark a significant trend in female behaviour, particularly among younger women. In 1987 women and girls accounted for just 10 per cent of violent crimes, but by 1995 the figure was 16 per cent. The police arrived and arrested me.”
Home Office figures show the number of violent crimes committed by women has increased by 250 per cent since 1973. I smashed her head against the wall until she was unconscious You can’t have any privacy in a home. “I went back to the home and beat up this girl really bad because I found her going through my stuff. Then we were going back past an off-licence so we threw a brick through the window, grabbed all these bottles of beer, ran off and got drunk.

and wrote all over it – you know, just ‘Debs woz ere’, that sort of thing. She was first charged with assault and burglary when she was 15: “We weren’t meant to go out of the children’s home, but a friend and me did We were bored We went into the centre of town to the big monument. So far in her short life she has notched up two convictions for assault, and one for burglary She doesn’t think this is unusual. Debs is 17 years old.

But in Anthony Minghella the Academy may have picked one not prone to any of the afflictions of Albion.The British may not be coming, but one son of Italians from the Isle of Wight probably is.. The Americans can put up with being patronised but they will not be condescended to.There is such a thing as the Oscar curse which does not only afflict the English (though it has been known to magic fine actresses into Labour transport spokespersons). After the costume romp of Tom Jones, Tony Richardson’s The Loved One turned him into the loathed one overnight, the clash between English sensibility and alien subject proving fatal. Similarly, Roland Joffe after his victory with The Killing Fields tried to tell the story of the genesis of the atomic bomb with Fat Man and Little Boy – and bombed.