News flash: Today's gelded Brits turned into trite fascist thugs!

Rating: 2/10 (17 May 2007)

It's kind of ironic. At a time when Great Britain appears to be declining into terminal wimpiness -- multiculturalism the orthodoxy of the day; swatches of London turned into Londonistan; Britain's military cut in half; her once-great navy reduced to coastal patrol; her sailors groveling with self-abasement before their Iranian captors, then attempting to sell their stories to the tabloids; her prince kept home from the war lest he be kidnapped; in short, a nation of pacifists, appeasers, and peace marchers -- the makers of "Children of Men" have concocted a leftie's dystopia in which today's soft-headed nanny state has improbably morphed into a nation of ruthless fascists who hunt down dissidents and cage, torture, and murder innocent asylum seekers. "Children" celebrates the trite old radical mind-set that sustained us in the '60s: the government is evil, off the pigs, open the borders, we're brave members of the underground, a cadre of romantic revolutionaries, blah blah blah... It's the sort of self-pitying fantasy that must warm the hearts of Guardian and Independent readers everywhere as they search their papers for signs of police brutality they can tsk-tsk over.