From The Sunday TimesJuly 13, 2008

Britain is creating youths who have nothing to lose by crime

Minette Marrin

Personal responsibility was the political buzzword of last week. The prime minister urged us to take personal responsibility for global waste, poverty and pollution by eating up our greens –- I hope he himself left a clean plate after consuming his 57 varieties of high-status food at the G8.

Less absurdly, David Cameron spoke of personal responsibility at a by-election launch in the miserable depths of Glasgow’s Gallowgate about “brokenâ€