Baby Malcontents Meet Nanny State
For years, Tony Blair's government has been leading a fight against the "anti-social behavior" of its anti-social youth, or, in British, its yobs. The Times reports on the latest push:
Children below the age of 10 will be subject to antisocial behaviour orders [Asbos] for the first time under sweeping new powers to combat yob culture.
The "baby Asbo" or "Basbo" would see a troublesome child barred from verbally abusing neighbours or banned from parts of an estate.
More here. Scotland's First Minister backs "naming and shaming" of yobs here. Yobs throw tarts at a wedding party here.
