Copper’s Blog on youth:

For the genuinely unemployable there are innumerable schemes or projects that demand attendance a few hours a week. The aim of such schemes is to “…empower young people and give them back their self-esteem…”, in my experience the attendees require less “empowering” and a good deal less “self-esteem”. Young criminals hold such a high opinion of themselves that I for one would like to see them taken down a peg or two.