Julie and Jonathan Myerson personify the worst generation in history

This family’s very public angst is all about making cash, says Rod Liddle. And the parents were not showing ‘tough love’ when they kicked out their son, but washing their hands of a problem

Not my vegetarian dinner, not my lime juice minus gin,
Quite can drown a faint conviction that we may be born in Sin.

— John Betjeman, ‘Huxley Hall’

It’s the perpetual adolescent in me, I suppose, but I’ve always rather had a thing for public enemies — people whom the entire British public wish to see flayed alive, hanged or deported. I enjoyed a fairly lengthy correspondence with the pop singer and entrepreneur Jonathan King when he was banged up in Belmarsh for having buggered several children; he was a clever and entertaining communicant and even seemed to agree with my assessment that he should have been imprisoned for even longer for the crime of inflicting ‘Una Paloma Blanca’ on an unsuspecting public.