Well-meaning liberals in the 60s and 70s took a deal of social order and discipline out of the schools in particular and out of society in general in the cause of "civil liberties". The resulting increase in hooliganism is a natural by-product.

The police and the Courts have been forced into taking a namby-pamby approach to miscreants so there are no longer the same disincentives to bad behaviour in England. When I am in other European countries I can sense a more defined social order - people just seem to be more self-disciplined.

I don't say that the 60s revolution was wrong, but am not surprised that there have been some predictable downsides.

Terry