Following on from yesterday, I'm wondering if this whole "yob violence" is a result of the way that bullying is just swept under the carpet, a result of the casual acceptance of institutionalised child abuse (compulsory education) and a hypocritcal attitude to bullying in general, i.e. "workplace competetiveness" on the one hand and our foreign policy and the attitude of anti-Trade Union commentators on the other.

Before long three things will happen: 1. A policeman is killed by a minor
2.There is a campaign to execute the perpetrator
3.Under-18s only right is to exist as property. Children are now slaves.
Of course, they won't call it slavery but it would be a form of ceorldom for unsupervised minors or those who's parents are unemployed (child benefits would be phased out), who would labour for a "responsible adult" until aged eighteen.

Even if this doesn't happen, and it does look far-fetched, I still predict that the next big civil rights issue will be children's rights. This campaign to demonise working-class children will only lead to an increase in violence and sexual exploitation.