Eddie Mair's Touchy-Feely Show

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Ive found it's often young male intoxicated

I agree although to judge by the obsessive news story of the day, it is all about what happens to savvy vulnerable women in their teens and early twenties who choose to be "hostesses" for law breaking rich male pigs. The answer is that over a million pounds is diverted from terminally ill children to women's charities, there's a simultaneous collapse of flagship London hospitals and everything associated with Masonic lodges, and the future of "The Full Monty" nights in northern working women's clubs, which was actually a phenomenon in Mexborough at the very least since Mark E Smith was in short trousers - shoving money in the underpants etc - looks unexpectedly bleak. As is often noted, the zeitgeist is drama, then it changes.

I don't know if Eddie Mair carried the story - but everyone else in the media did. BBC Radio London spent five hours on it from 5am to 10am. I doubt that it is justifying its existence. Arguably, though, with the various parties involved, we have a snapshot of the more warring dysfunctional modern well-off parents and their offspring. It's that family unit writ large. In the 19th C wealthy men travelled across the Thames to take advantage of young women in the saddest hovels of The Mint at Waterloo but I don't sense real poverty is involved here.

Fascinatingly, after all of yesterday's personal stuff, Tessa's speech in the Lords proposing policy changes in approaches to treatments barely got a look in. Just not sensational enough!