Steve McQueen’s '12 Years A Slave' continued its triumphant march towards next month’s Oscars at the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards tonight.

Adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh, Filth (18s) opens with the murder of a Japanese student in Edinburgh in the run-up to Christmas.

You wouldn’t think the Hammers – dear old West Ham United, usually of the lower regions of the Premier League, when not being relegated – could enrage so many of their fans to such heights of savagery.