JUST a cursory glance at the news pages of your Worcester News will tell you that there is no shortage of violence in today’s society.

Youths fight with ever-increasing savagery, domestic incidents are characterised by escalating beastliness and road rage is a daily occurrence.

It will soon be 30 years since corporal punishment was abolished in schools, a measure – you will undoubtedly recall – that was brought in on the tail of logic that decreed brutality begat more of the same.

The awful irony is that as statesanctioned unpleasantness declined, so it correspondingly grew beyond the quadrangles.

There must be a moral somewhere.