Tessa Jowell once ignited a furious political row by claiming that inner-city youths active in criminal gangs were exhibiting a misdirected spirit of enterprise.
‘These people have very formidable entrepreneurial skills which they have put to bad use,’ she claimed.
I was put in mind of her observation when watching the teenage TikTok miscreant Mizzy being grilled by Piers Morgan on television this week.
For the benefit of the vanishingly small number of people still unaware of the exploits of Mizzy, real name Bacari-Bronze O’Garro, this youth has become notorious for videoing himself carrying out extremely unpleasant and traumatising ‘pranks’ on unsuspecting members of the public. These have included taking an old lady’s dog, invading people’s homes uninvited, mocking an Orthodox Jew and stroking the hair of young girls while asking them ‘do you wanna dye?’ (Geddit?).
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