Modern Times - Tuesday, July 20, 2010 16:55 - 3 Comments

Modern Times: Raoul Moat

“Society creates its own monsters”. So runs, at the time of writing, one of the more intelligent comments posted on the wall of the new Raoul Moat fan page, in stark contrast to the innumerable lines of vitriolic flaming, poor punctuation, ad hominem arguments and flagrant OVERUSE OF CAPS LOCK. Corin Faife takes a look at what the Raoul Moat story, and our collective reaction to it, tell us about the way we live, and think, today.