Tolerance of youth has changed

SADLY we all make mistakes and Liam Neeson has just lost his multi-million pound acting career because of comments which he should have kept to himself. Then there is the case of the Warwick students who expressed crude remarks in a private internet chat room. Whatever the rights or wrong of their actions, these students’ lives have been destroyed. (Reports Coventry Telegraph 7 and 8 February). Twenty years ago civil rights lawyers would have argued that the actions of the students were