The parents are shown this data in a large white room with a huge screen, and watch as their children morph before there eyes into what is always their own rough-looking parents, but even worse. Williams should not die on Monday, but not because he has “changed”. He should not be killed because one should never take the life of another person.Public-service reality TV – it can happenI’ve been glued these past weeks to a strange BBC1 programme called Honey We’re Killing the Kids. Featuring a hapless family of fat-saturated couch potatoes, it subjects the children to a series of health tests, then uses the data to create a computer model of what they’ll look like at 40 and the age they’ll be when they die. His campaigns since then against street-gang culture have been powerful and successful. This, argue liberal campaigners in the US, means that he should be granted clemency, saving him from death by lethal injection on Monday.Actually, Williams is not a candidate for clemency at all.

He has never admitted his crimes, let alone expressed contrition for them He says he was framed by the police. Even if he was, it’s hard to imagine that a young man would have kept an iron grip on such a violent gang without ever having taken a life himself.Williams admits no such thing, and maintains that as a deprived child in the ghetto, he did what his environment dictated In other words, he excuses himself. Until the 1990s, when he was sentenced to six years of solitary confinement, he continued to run his nihilistic organisation from behind bars.During a six-year solitary confinement, though, he claimed to have changed. Unless there are a lot of vampire families in Kensington, who can’t go outside in daylight, I suggest that they’re just spoilt, overprivileged loudmouths, who think the rest of the world exists to please them. I bet they used to vote Blair, and can’t wait to vote Cameron.Death Row dilemmaStanley “Tookie” Williams founded the Crips, the notorious Los Angeles street gang, when he was 17 In 1979 was found guilty of several brutal murders.

If you had children of your own, you’d understand our concerns, you shrivelled-up old cow.”Minutes after that lot had marched off, another family arrived, similarly affluent and posh-sounding, similarly furious that the rules should apply even to them. “You nasty power-crazed creature.” When I asked him to stop hurling insults at public employees doing their jobs, he started on me “It’s none of your business, you hard-faced shrew. I was there with my children on Saturday, and was amazed by the level of abuse and and arrogance on display there. One upper-class father, on being told that he could not bring his daughters in, began shouting insults at the young Afro-Caribbean council workers who had politely – almost pleadingly – asked him to comply with the rules.”You sour, twisted old bitch,” he boomed. But I’m not in favour of signing up to the mistaken idea that “lack of respect” is a problem only among the poor and the ignorant.Rather than funding research, Blair and Cameron would both do well instead to hang around incognito when London’s Princess Diana memorial playground closes at dusk. Launching his policy unit at a charity-run school for deprived black boys, Cameron signalled his support for specialist education for children with problems I’m in favour of that.

You’d imagine that a man wishing to do away with “Punch and Judy” politics would find the research carried out at great expense over eight years at the social exclusion unit to be enough to be going on with for now. But perhaps he is again taking his lead for Blair, since the once enthusiastic PM has not let the words “social exclusion” cross his lips for years.
Instead, Blair bangs on about “the Respect Agenda” and so does Cameron. Apache Tomcat/5.5.25 – Error report HTTP Status 503 – Too many incoming HTTP requeststype Status reportmessage Too many incoming HTTP requestsdescription The requested service (Too many incoming HTTP requests) is not currently available.Apache Tomcat/5.5.25. Apache Tomcat/5.5.25 – Error report HTTP Status 503 – Too many incoming HTTP requeststype Status reportmessage Too many incoming HTTP requestsdescription The requested service (Too many incoming HTTP requests) is not currently available.Apache Tomcat/5.5.25. Apache Tomcat/5.5.25 – Error report HTTP Status 503 – Too many incoming HTTP requeststype Status reportmessage Too many incoming HTTP requestsdescription The requested service (Too many incoming HTTP requests) is not currently available.Apache Tomcat/5.5.25. My goodness, the similarities between Blair and Cameron really are uncanny. Blair, for example, has spent many years in power talking about radical change but preferring to shelve such eventualities by commissioning lengthy reports on What Need to Be Done instead Now Cameron’s at it.