PETER HITCHENS: Today's child-snatchers are as evil as Philomena's nuns

We are very good at judging the past and sneering at the misdeeds of our parents and grandparents. We are not so good at seeing  or condemning our own faults.
A clever new film, Philomena, is a good example of this. Judi Dench does a wonderful job of portraying a badly wronged woman, robbed of her child by cruel and bigoted Irish nuns in a grim convent, with the complicity of the State and the law.
The story is based upon an actual case. No doubt such horrible things were done. And they were done, as they always are, by people who believed they were completely right.

Film: Philomena, starring Judi Dench as Philomena and Steve Coogan as Martin Sixsmith

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