Report 1: ‘Hit-run victim left in street’ London Lite 06/06/08.
A pensioner was mowed down by a hit an run and left lying on the groun with nobody around to help him. CCTV footage was caught of the 78 year old walking across the road and a car slamming into lifting the pensioner up in the air, flipping over to land on the curb.The car drove off leaving the man for dead. Also caught on CCTV was a man walking pass taking a photo of the critically injured body untill some time later a member of the public calls the ambulance.

It is important to add that this report was on page 14 of the paper ( Big Brother had front page spread)

Report 2: ‘Only 10 London MPs out of 74 at knife debate’ London Lite 06/06/08. The title is self explanatory

Fancy a serving of social decay, anyone?

This story reflects two ideas that are central to British culture: (1) that we cannot trust the government, leaving kids to conclude that they must resort to using weapons to resolve an argument over a packet of crisps, and (2) that people are willing to say one thing and do another.

Indeed you do find elders – including Muslim parents – who claim that it was “different in their day”, and that they don’t know where this cancer comes from. Surely a moments contemplation on their own example would suffice as explanation.

For years their children have been witnessing that their parents are willing to decide for themselves what is good and bad.

Isn’t Britain famed for football hooligans and drunken yobs on a Friday night and slutty trips to Ibiza and Prague? If this is the example we set for our kids, what else would we expect…