Role Models

I'm coming a bit late to this, but Conservative MP, Nick Fletcher, has suggested that young men are committing crime because of lack of role models on TV.

For a start, young men don't watch TV - they're more into films on Netflix and stupid YouTube videos. 

Secondly, aren't their fathers role models? No-one has has mentioned the word positive in this debate and there are such things as negative role models.

Thirdly, they have that epitome of muscular manhood, Boris Johnson, as a role model. Actually, serial infidelity, constant lying and betrayal are not perhaps the attributes sought in positive role models for one's children. Not knowing precisely how many children you have is possibly another attribute that's not ideal in a positive role model. 

As for Dr Who, I've always wanted to see Victor Meldrew as Dr Who's sidekick, if not an the actual Doctor himself - or herself.

Last night we accidentally tuned into Dr Who while channel surfing and saw a Yorkshire Terrier with a Manchester accent controlling a spacecraft. Amazing - not that it was a Yorkshire Terrier, but that a Mancunian could control a spacecraft.

I've always wondered what Dr Who's PhD was in. I just looked it up and he apparently gained a doctorate under Joseph Lister in Glasgow in 1888.