You only have to spend half an hour driving on Britain’s motorways or try and get on a crowded tube train to know that people are small-minded, mean-spirited and cavalier with other people’s safety.

So it puzzles me why the IKEA riot has garnered such wide coverage.

If you’re going to get over-excited about people who are so desperately unhappy they’re willing to fight over cheap sofas in the middle of the night, why not go the whole hog do an exposes on queue-jumping across Britain and people hitting their kids in supermarkets.