How not to do things

[sawyl]

A classic example of how not to do things on this morning's Today Programme: a spokesperson from the Young Foundation turns up with some statistics which show that people are getting more and not less polite; the BBC puts him up against someone — Christopher Frayling — who, rather than attacking the methodology of the research, repeats a handful of anecdotes about people being rude to him. Pleasant as the dialogue was, I'm not sure what it added above and beyond the Young Foundation's original report on their findings...