Ian

"Most criminals say they don't mean it. It doesn't follow that when you point out that you said something in fun that you are ergo a
criminal."

A bit of logical gymnastics there.

I didn't write that the Scottish boys said they didn't mean it, but that they said they were joking. Criminals may say they didn't mean it; not many say they were just joking.

Nor did I assert that saying something in fun makes you a criminal.

As for "Who are the media going to tell you to hate next? Baa Baa", I'm pretty impervious to such campaigns. I don't even hate Clarkson. Personally, I don't really do hate. The mass media didn't even normalise buying a house, eating junk food, loving celebrity, disliking foreigners, or embracing materialism.

Hope that helps.