UMMMM//The bDanny, surely you know more than most, the birch will never return .irch would do naff all. It was always the same kids getting caned in school. Obviously it didn't teach them.//
If you had met someone who had been birched,as I have, you would know differently.
Anne//Danny, surely you know more than most, the birch will never return .//
More's the pity, but the courts have to start meting out punishments thjat are a deterrent.The magistrates in my day used to announce that anybody brought before them for assaulting a policemen would get 6 months imprisonment.