Without meaning any offence, the same cannot be said of a lot of young English people".
I've worked in offices where fully mortgaged, highly educated, even church-attending fathers of four have sworn like sergeant majors throughout the working day without causing any offence to those around them.
"Recently my agent Alessandro Moggi presented me with some offers from Premiership clubs, but without meaning any offence, I would not go back to London if they paid me a fortune in gold.
But irrespective of the action on the field – which I hope I can describe as pretty dull without causing any offence, as all the rugby union regulars around me in the press box seem to spend a fair amount of time castigating the low quality of entertainment – there is no doubt that league has much to learn commercially from the other code.
They explained why Mackay went from suing Tan for £7.5m in compensation for wrongful dismissal following his sacking at the end of December, to four months later issuing an apology "without reservation" for "causing any offence to anyone during this time [managing Cardiff], especially to Vincent Tan".
So here's the key question: do we want to live in a society where people can be cut off from the internet without a trial, without a jury and without proving they committed any offence at all?
Aamer, who is in extremely poor health, has been held in the US military prison on Cuba for 12 years without being charged with any offence – despite official protests from the British government.
In a declassified phone call with his lawyer last week, Shaker Aamer, who has been held in the Cuban prison for more than 11 years without being charged with any offence, said he still faces "forced cell extractions" on a daily basis.
It highlights that "research conducted for the last review of the whip rules showed that 99.25% of all runners from January 2004 to April 2011 competed without any whip offence taking place.
"Whilst witnesses clearly cannot simply admit to any offence under oath without consequences, this has to be balanced with the requirement for victims and witnesses to tell the truth.
