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SET UP IN EARLY 1920S BUT WITH GRAPHICS OF OUR TIME

               PEAKY BLINDERS
               *****
               By Karim Kargbo

               Life    after   the   war:       organisation.                   Thomas Shelby, a wise and
               Who was responsible for the                                      well-calculated  man,  knew
               war?  Peaky  Blinders,  an       The  Shelby  Organisation:      that streets crime paid off but
               action-based  drama  show        Feared by its competitors and   did not promise a better pay.
               aired  on  the  big  screens  of   the  local  people.  Led  by  a   A legitimate business on the

               BBC One and Two in 2013.         returning  hero  soldier  from   other hand did pay better.
               It reveals that so many lives    the  Great  War,  Thomas        He  joined  politics  and
               were lost and many more left     Shelby. Thomas Shelby and       became  a  Member  of
               with trauma during and after     his  family  ran  the  Shelby   Parliament.  In  his  mind’s
               The Great World War One.         Organisation.
                                                                                eye, this was a safe place to
               One  will  not  be  naive  to
                                                                                protect  himself,  his  family
               disbelieve  that  it  was  not  a
                                                                                and    their   organisation.
               world  political  exercise.
                                                                                Indeed,  he  was  successful
               After all, every big nation at
                                                                                and  for  personal  reasons  it
               that time wanted to be seen as
                                                A very close and tight family   was a good move at the time.
               the  greatest  nation  in  the
                                                and  they  loved  each  other
               world.                                                           However,  I  am  completely
                                                unconditionally.
                                                                                not  in  favour  of  the
               Great Britain was, indeed, in    The Shelby Organisation was     glorification  of  violence.

               an  economic  shamble  after     one  of  the  most  powerful    Violence  was  used  to  gain
               World War One. It spent a lot    gangs    of   the    time.      power. Violence was used to
               of  resources  during  the                                       intimidate both the locals and
               course of the war. Economic                                      their  competitors.  Violence
               development  was  another                                        was used all the times like it
               war battle that it had to fight.                                 was                  okay!
               And  of  course,  in  those                                      If you are not into drama and
               difficult times, in 1919, there   It was notoriously known in    action shows, Peaky Blinders

               were  many  organisations        every corner of their city. In   is not for you.
               with gangsters within. It was    their   local   city   of       The  show,  Peaky  Blinders,
               impossible  to  successfully     Birmingham,  they  ran  the     contains  30  episodes  and
               run an organisation if you’re    streets.   The     Shelby       each is packed with action. It
               not a gangster. Yes, it was the   Organisation’s  main  line  of   has won many awards and it

               only  guarantee of  security     business  was  in  illegal      is still trending, gaining more
               and  it  had  economic           merchandise.    It   later
               advantages  too,  which  was     progressed  on  to  running     viewers. It is now also shown
               no doubt the purpose of any      pubs  and  security  firms.     on Netflix.

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