bollocks (pardon my french)

ok, so there are two rant-worthy things here, imo: (i) the way the bbc - our 'premiere' broadcasting organisation, apparently - report this story: would they report it like this on the today programme? on pm? on newsnight? no, of course not. but because it's on the web site, they can do simplified/glib/dumbed down, with a sensationalist tabloid headline. and (ii) the essence of this story (it seems to me) is about the desire that the offender radically changes that behaviour - hood- and cap-wearing is not radical behaviour change; it's tabloid gloss.

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