Happy Slapping (n): (aka Banging Out) - the disturbing trend of capturing acts of randon violence against strangers on video phones and textiing these clips to friends. Clearly such acts are performed by the mindless, for the mindless and in sharing the evidence they may well incriminate themselves. Hopefully.

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Despite some tough competition, Christopher Muat was the star of the Channel 4 documentary Anti-Social Old Buggers, screened in June.

At 88, Muat is the oldest recipient of an order and, despite being a widower, half-deaf and half-dead, the Liverpudlian is hardly the sort of grandfather figure any of us ...   more »