“A version of 1980s working-class England triumphed over a version of 90s upper-class England at the ninth British Independent Film Awards last night. Shane Meadows’s This Is England will not be on general release until next spring but it has already won over film festival audiences, impressing critics in London and winning a special jury prize at Rome. It added a Bifa best film award last night. It beat impressive opposition such as The Queen… The Last King of Scotland and two films which won at Cannes – the Palme d’Or winner, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, and the jury prize winner, Red Road.”