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Tongs Ya Bas: The Explosive History of Glasgow's Street Gangs

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In 2011 Police praised a community initiative to reduce violence. They hadn't just chipped away at the problem, they had smashed the structure completely with an almost instant 78% drop in murder and serious assault.

I caught this film late night on the Sundance channel. It is extraordinarily well done. It's good to see more and more cinema from the UK showing on cable here in the US. As the years went by the drug problem escalated and a heroin epidemic, along with a harsh Thatcher government, had started to bite and ravage areas like Possil and The Calton. Read More Related Articles As Lex is the central protagonist we are often given his perspective of events. An earlier gang encounter at a fairground is received from his point of view, which is then followed by a man leading an elephant across a field. Such surreal imagery is almost a childlike representation of events. Shaky camera movements during his drunken stupor are further indication of the camera allowing us to identify ourselves with him.Strathclyde Police Gangs Task Force use a method called Recency, Frequency and Gravity, which looks scientifically at how recently gang members offended, how frequently and how serious the offences were. If "bass" is based on the Gaelic for battle and die, presumably Terror McCabe must have been a fluent Gaelic speaker, but somehow I think that's unlikely.

Joe Pyke, 77, has lived in the area for 50 years and recalls running the gauntlet from nearby Gallowhill when he ventured into Calton to court his wife as a teenager. The policy was even praised by then Prime Minister David Cameron who gave it as an example of a way to fight gang violence in London after the riots that took place there that year. By that time the drug trade, which had crept in during the 60’s took hold of nearly every impoverished community with places like The Calton, Maryhill and Possil particularly affected. The areas were drowning amid a deluge of heroin and plagued by a new generation of violent, ruthless dealers. It was during this time that the drug trade really started to get a grip of the city. Being in a gang was suddenly no longer just about territorialism or the thrill of the violence. This was about protecting your patch and therefore protecting a profit. Read More Related Articles

SMALL FACES is a Scottish film set in Glasgow during the late 1960s and follows the lives of three brothers from the Maclean family : Bobby a member of the Glen Gang , Alan who has ambitions of going to art school and Lex a thirteen year old boy and like the character of Taylor in PLATOON where the main character finds himself being split between the violent pragmatism of Barnes and the humanity of Elias young Lex is split between what brother makes the better role model The Glasgow gangster hard man stereotype has become as synonymous with Scotland as the deep fried Mars bar and holds as much mythical status as the Loch Ness monster. This year Glasgow can finally shed the tag as the UK’s violent crime capital as it was revealed that violent crime has dropped by more 50% in little more than a decade, putting Glasgow behind London, Manchester and Liverpool in reported incidents of violence. It was also confirmed this year that active gangs in the city were at the lowest in living memory and had almost become completely non-existent. There is a well-executed, pardon the pun, killing at an ice-rink, but I was otherwise unconvinced by the dialogue and thought there was an over-dilution of the way things really were (for instance, I didn't see one razor-slashing) and I can guarantee that the language and actual violence of the times was much stronger than we see here, although I can understand this may have been done for certification purposes. The numbers dropped but the Cumbie endured and, then in the late 80s and 90s they became trendsetters, pioneering a new style that defined a generation. Read More Related Articles

No clichés. No insult to your intelligence. Just a story, well told, superbly acted, and superbly shot. This film is a textbook on how to make a good drama. Just one of many superb films from the UK (another recent good one was The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner) that we've been deprived of over here until now. Gang members are then broken down into categories, producing lists of names which the Gangs Task Force can use to target the worst offenders. The application of the phrase caused some dispute at first. Nobody doubted ya bass meant you bastard. But the grammarians who discussed it were undecided about its vocative or apostrophic use. Some said cogs ya bass meant O Cogs! You are bastards! Others said it meant we are the Cogs, o you bastards! Gsw. 1979 Maurice Lindsay Collected Poems 77: But the old territorialism was also still rife and new battle lines were soon drawn in the new estates.

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In 2008, as the social media generation started to take hold and youth culture all over the world was experiencing a massive change, the amount of gangs in the city had started to rapidly decrease. That day, led by McCabe, the Calton gang dished out a terrible beating to the Spur inside the picture hall. It left nobody in any doubt who the victors were. And who the new power in the east end was. Tongland (Image: Wikipedia) Other factors came into play in improving the quality of life in Calton, such as the injection of cash that is being used to give the area a facelift and new housing in time for the Commonwealth Games in 2014. The film is a quasi-remake of Hammer's 1959 film The Stranglers of Bombay. The setting is changed to Hong Kong in 1910 from India in the 19th century but the basic plot of a middle-aged, yet youthful hero attempting to uncover the crimes of a secret sect in a British colony, being captured by the sect, and later released, having a personal stake in the outcome, finding that there is an inside villain, and losing friends or family are all there.

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