An Inspector Calls – and Then Tells You What to Think – The Daily Sceptic

An Inspector Calls – and Then Tells You What to Think – The Daily Sceptic

Sixteen year-old Jack Watson confesses to lying about what he really thinks about socialism and climate change to get good grades in his GCSEs. If you criticise either, he says, you will be marked down.

An Inspector Calls – and Then Tells You What to Think - The New Conservative

J.B Priestley’s An Inspector Calls is a Left-wing manifesto that students are forced to read for GCSE. In the play, Priestley uses younger characters to illustrate to his readers, especially the young, the importance of adopting the same views and to criticise the upper and middle classes, represented in the play by the Birling Family.