On this grey afternoon in August, I just finished reading an interesting article by Jeremy Vine where he argues that the next time he witnesses an anti-social act he will intervene. I'm not so sure I would. When you hear on a weekly basis news stories of decent citizens trying to prevent thugs from doing what thugs do best, and getting badly hurt or even killed in the process, I think we can be forgiven for not intervening when we see something nasty happening in a public place. That doesn't make us brave, in fact it makes us slightly cowardly. It also makes us survivors in an age when children go around stabbing each other, and teenagers carry guns and 'off' one another left, right and centre. If you do intervene and prevent some hoodie from carrying out their nefarious deeds, you probably end up being charged for abusing said hoodie's human rights under European law.
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