Steve ~~ re your response to John; why pretend to be such a fool that you can't recognise a simple & pertinent analogy? How much conviction to you think such a pose will bring to your arguments? Unless, of course, you actually ARE such a fool...

Now MtheGM, ol' bean. I know what a twat I've made you look, what with your pro-royal, mindless contumely and your very dodgy spelling of overly-clever words, but really. You know as well as I do that few analogies are "simple." Oh that they were! There are so many fundamental differences twixt what happens in prison and what happens in wider society that it's perfectly ludicrous to claim that the one is a microcosm of the other (which isn't to say that I deny all potential comparisons). Theleveller said it much better than I could. That's the second time in a day that you've called me naughty names simply because I demur from your lordly opinion on matters which most people would consider to be, at best, controversial. Actually, I was wrong up there. I didn't make you look a twat. You managed it all by yourself.