When Shaun Fields, a 12-year old boy living in the Thatcher-era East Midlands, strays from the benign skinhead crew of Woody and co. into the era-endemic far-right ‘nationalist’ cult of Andrew ‘Combo’ Gascoigne, a skinhead recently released from prison, it is less a choice borne of malice or broad naïveté, and rather one inextricable from Meadows’ persistent motif of real and imagined communities in his seminal 2006 film This is England.