Lady Piggott and I just celebrated our wedding anniversary. Instead of booking a table at our usual restaurant, I decided to cook my dear wife and I a rather splendid duck dish complete with stuffing, confit, crisp roast potatoes, peas and gravy. Having digested our feast, we sat down to watch a flick called 'Harry Brown', starring Michael Caine. I must say, we both very much enjoyed it because it shows Caine blasting scumbags - who make our lives a misery - well and truly away.

If you have not yet seen 'Harry Brown', I can't recommend it enough. The film is set in the Elephant & Castle in the sarf of London but the frightening reality is that it could quite easily be based around your neck of the woods.

Caine was born and brought up around the Elephant & Castle some 70-years ago. In the accompanying documentary, Caine explained how life there has both changed and stayed the same. As an adolescent, Caine realised that he had to get out of his hometown. After struggling in rep for many years, he finally got his big break by getting a starring part in Zulu. The rest, as they say, is history.

Sarf London is now ruled by gangs of kids running riot with knives, guns and pubescent rage. The trouble is, where years ago youths would have a punch-up after a few too many beers and then go home to bed, these days their ire is now fuelled by drugs such as cocaine, cannabis, heroin and speed.

Mr Caine explained that his research for the title role involved talking to youths who live in his old stomping ground. In short, just like him, they want to get the hell out. According to Caine, the same frustrations exist among today's young people as existed in Caine and his peers back in the 50s and 60s.

Unfortunately, drugs are now the scourge of sarf London estates and Caine made a point of explaining that the curse of the drug dealer must be stamped out in order that young people can escape their beginnings and enjoy more productive, satisfying and prosperous lives.

Harry Brown is not a 'feel-good film', though I must admit it made Lady P. and I feel extremely good when we saw a few local thugs being blown to kingdom come. Obviously, I won't spoil the movie for you by telling you too much, but suffice to say Caine's performance is brilliant.

Having said that, it's rather sad that Lady P. and I both sat through the flick and cheered every time a miscreant came to a fitting demise. I mean, should we really be living in a society where the sight of a kid being dispatched into oblivion brings us out in smiles?

I wonder if there isn't anyone out there who hasn't secretly fantasized about shooting a local yobbo after witnessing him vandalising a property, verbally abusing an OAP or stealing a car.

In the interview, Caine stated that Harry Brown is not a violent film but rather it is a film about violence. I think he is right.

I think I am also right when I say that before long we will see a few real-life Harry Browns on our streets, dispensing justice to the feral youths who think they are above the law, beyond the reach of the police and untouchable by the hands of the frustrated, frightened and downright angry local community.

Well, we can only hope, can't we?.