I recently read his book "I'm Only Being Honest" and found to my surprise a lot of good sense in it. He seems to be sincere in his quest to turn dysfunctional lives around by hard-hitting truth rather than 'there-there' sympathy. His basic tenet is that everyone is ultimately responsible for their own actions and the consequences, and the only way to sort things out is to make them face themselves and make an effort to be more adult. I imagined the book would be self-aggrandising and instead found him to be painfully modest and, as the title says, honest. No-one can deny that the problems of drink, drugs and irresponsible parenting among young people are doing harm to our society.