A man named Hugh Robinson from the TUC is currently on the radio claiming that attacks on emergency services staff are on the rise, and that this is a Terrible Thing. This would in itself be worthy, except for Mr Robinson’s idiocy.
He seems to be claiming that ‘being rude to people in call centres’ is badness comparable to ‘beating up ambulancemen’. No: if you’re going to claim that being rude on the phone while you’re anonymous (so no danger of it spilling over to anything scary in real life) is in any way comparable to actual violence, you can fuck right off.
Or alternatively, we could arrange for one person to be rude to Mr Robinson over an anonymous phone link, for another person to break his arms and legs, and *then* ask him whether he thinks the two are comparable…