. JUNK THOUGHT
UNTIL the Minister for Tourism voiced his thoughts in Greece about British holi- day hooligans, one might have supposed that the least distinguished contribution ever made to the science of criminology was that of members of the British Society for Nutritional Medicine, who recently suggested that juvenile delinquency might be controlled if school tuck shops were not permitted to sell junk food. (How long will it be before the first rapist sues a manufac- turer of potato crisps?) The minister, however, managed to suggest something even more fatuous: that British hooligans abroad needed more education about the effects of sun and alcohol. There is un- doubtedly much for British hooligans abroad to learn, products as they are of our incomparable educational system; but not, surely, that alcohol makes them drunk, or that the sun makes them pink.
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