Spot-on as usual.

My thoughts on this deeply tedious row: 1 ) I concur with everything you said here about the Welsh police needing to shut up and do their jobs. 2) I have zero interest in rugby and Tom Jones (unless you count that hilarious cameo in Mars Attacks!), but I am sick to the back teeth of people who think songs (or plays, TV dramas, and films for that matter) are somehow suggestions or belief systems, and are unable to differentiate between depicting something and endorsing something. Now that apparently includes the Welsh police.

Songs are stories, and some of those stories reflect jealousy, misogyny, etc, but they aren't instructions to those listening. Yes, I think the story in Delilah is repugnant, I don't care for the song, and like any right-thinking person I despise domestic violence, but the fact that I even feel a need to spell this out here (not to you Alison, but to any potentially offended commenters) is increasingly worrying to me. I fear as a society we are headed for disaster if this lack of critical thinking continues to prevail.

It also bothers me that the media have blown this up out of all proportion, encouraging this kind of polarised stupidity even further. We all need to pull our heads out of the sand and realise we are being manipulated.