Conservative MP Boris Johnson is no stranger to controversy. Previous targets have included Liverpool - "hooked on grief" - and Papua New Guinea. But now he has attacked a far more important target - computer games, or "electronic opiate" - accusing them of damaging literacy and social skills.
It is time to garrotte the Game Boy and paralyse the PlayStation, and it is about time, as a society, that we admitted the catastrophic effect these blasted gizmos are having on the literacy and the prospects of young males.
Erm, calm down Boris. Are you seriously suggesting games consoles are the main reason for illiteracy? Really? Nothing to do with education or parenting then? But simplified rant or not I do - gulp - think he talks some sense. Are kids reading enough? Probably not. But blaming all this on games consoles - "drivelling machines" - is plainly ridiculous. Isn't it?
