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attitudes. Human dignity – life, even – goes out of the window when a strutting, I’m-very-important mindset comes in through the door.
The internet, with its myriad platforms for venting this narcissism, encourages boastful young men to film violence and glorify their crime by putting the pictures online.
Of course, they are only a minority. Most people use things like Facebook for valid social purposes – though I know some are abandoning it because they have no control over their content.
But it only takes a minority to discredit a cultural institution, and that they are doing.
In the aftermath of poor Molly Russell’s suicide, government ministers say they will clamp down on the greedy tech giants who allow this stuff to be published.
I wish them luck. They will be the first magicians who have worked the trick of getting that particular genie back into the bottle. WHO says industrial action never achieves anything? After 47 days of strikes, train crews belong to the RMT union claim to have won their fight to keep a conductor on every train.
Congratulations!
NOTHING better illustrates the sordid nature of top-class soccer than demand for money by Nantes from Cardiff City.
The body of Emiliano Sala, lost in a plane crash off Guernsey, was still at the bottom of the ocean when his French football club demanded payment of the Argentinian’s £15m transfer fee.
They just couldn’t wait to get their hands on the cash. Squalid, but typical of the not-so-beautiful game.