[Wynonie Harris]

Sadly, just part of a general malaise that has afflicted this country in recent years. Go out on a weekend night in any city or town in the UK and you'll see a general level of yobbish behaviour, abuse and casual violence that, as far as I'm aware, you don't see in any other developed country. I've been for nights out in Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, San Francisco and Lima over the last ten years and I've yet to witness the sort of scenes that we now accept as part of the yob culture over here.

Why is it that I felt far safer at midnight in Harlem than I ever would do in Piccadilly Gardens??