How can the charity help the youth of today?
Well, the charity is very much at the heart of what we try to do, which is to get young people - particularly if one can put it in the sort of bottom end of the social spectrum, the ones that are supposedly the least successful and have the least expectations for themselves, and stuff - to get them to believe in themselves as autonomous, moral beings. So, a lot of our work is about getting young people to take themselves seriously in terms of their own values and beliefs. Not to just be phased by this awful celebrity culture, but to realize that they are equal in worth to any other person in the realm, and that they should have more esteem for themselves, because if you haven't got that you won't have esteem for others. And one of the things I want to try and do very soon - is because we don't just deal in law at all, we deal very much in sort of a broad value structure - one thing I'd love to do is a sort of a unit or a project on manners because the issue of manners is one that affects a lot of people, with unmanly behaviour, sometimes with anti-social behaviour. And to just go right back to square one on that, "What are they? And, why are they important?" Because we've got into this awful situation where a lot of youngsters who think they're shit, come from, often, broken homes or no homes, no jobs, no complications, no hopes, and no expectations, and all of that. They've completely lost sight of the fact that the way you are treated and the way you treat others, are two sides of the same coin, and that part of the oiling of relationships is in the superficials of how you treat people, in terms of manners. And, I think a huge amount could be done in that direction because it's a sort of window onto other things. I have a sense of this sort of going down this corridor, and pushing a window and air rushing in, and pushing another window and more air rushing in. And so, I'm a silly old fool, but I think something can be done with these lads.
