It has come to light this week that muggings are on the increase in Cardiff (specifically the Mount Stuart's Square area for those that live there). This got me thinking. What is the mentality of a person that would steal something from someone in the street? To burgle a house when there's nobody home is one thing, but to look someone in the eye and take what's theirs in the street, suggests a considerably more worrying detachment from humanity. I'm not interested in trying to understand the plight of the criminals involved. They don't deserve my sympathy. However they've been brought up, however deprived their developmental years, the basic awareness of what's right and wrong is part of our genetics. These people want what we've got without having to work for it. They are the senior representatives of this "something for nothing" generation. And this generation is thriving on a diet of our fear. So what can we do? Wait for more "policies"? Do we watch this cancer grow, hoping that we can treat it with paracetemol?

In lieu of a Spiderman or Superman to save us all from the demise of civilised society, we'll soon have Gordon Brown. See, it's not all bad...