your films do talk about violence just the way that people are now talking about violence then joe strummer says he's trying to set fire to a car in west london. which will which other member of the group clash is thinking of the liberation of throwing a molotov cocktail at a police line do you think the new scare and horror stories of gangs in britain are some links uniquely new or this is a trope that you've seen for the past few decades and listen the media have been creating urban folk devil since the fifty's you know it was the teddy boys back then it was the skinheads and the molds and the punks and they've always looked to demonize the youth they're really trying to express their frustration i'm telling anybody going throw molotov cocktail you'd be better off picking up of paint pen and vote. you know to me but you do have to be active in the process and the thing about young people is you know when you're young everything's either black or white you can kind of intellectualise the grey bits and it does lead to anger and frustration but i think you know it's hard to criticize young p