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egular readers of my editorial (hi mum) will know that many of my scribblings are as a result of the news I hear whilst travelling to work (it is a 250 mile round trip) and this most recent news item hit me hard-the fact that we are the worst of twenty one industrial nations when it comes to looking after our children and bringing them up properly. I felt bad for a number of reasons, not least National pride, but also because I don’t believe the figures can be right, especially when so many people choose to come here from their own native country for a better future. With that in mind, I thought we can’t be doing that bad, can we? Then you look at the crime and the teenage pregnancies (yes, something we are the best at in Europe) and you think maybe even if we’re not the worst in Europe and the statistics are wrong, so is a lot with our countries youth. We advertise about the benefits of martial arts, we talk a good fight but I don’t believe we truly realise what a force for good we really could be. All that stuff we pay lip-service to in our adverts is true! Many from the older generation will tell you that everything started to go wrong with the abolition of National Service, well, without realising it we provide a natural and viable alternative when it comes to discipline, respect, team-work and hard work and if we were to truly live up to our talk, we really could make a difference to the youth of today. With schools tentatively reaching out to martial arts instructors to fill after school slots, there has never been a better time for us to prove we can make a difference. I was part of the last generation that had boxing as part of the gym structure in their school. Wouldn’t it be great if we were also the first generation that says we have martial arts as part of the school curriculum? Back to the future for the good of society, sometimes the old days really were the best and maybe just maybe, an old dog can teach a young kid old tricks-such as respect, self-discipline and self-worth. The opportunity is there, we just have to seize it for the right reasons-to make a difference to a kid, not our own bank balance. Malcolm

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COLUMNISTS

Mike Finn Dan Docherty Michael Tse William Sanders Simon Hazeldine Dr. James Fisher

Sean Viera Paul Allen Richard Dimitri Helen Stranzl Mark Cortnage Kerry Louise Norbury

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Chris Samuel Keith Gilliland Dan Green Don Heatrick Brian Dossett Andy Hopwood Andy Bryant John Graden Nino Bernardo

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Paul Burkinshaw Matt Sylvester Frank Mensah Tom Hibbert Patrick Rault Carl Fisher Mic Clark Rob Nutley

Neville Wray Jim Fung Leon Dogan Peter Lewis Paul Hennesey Iain Abernethy Alfie Lewis Iain Armstrong Julian Dale Danny Guba Richard Thomas Rhee Ki Ha Steve Proctor Neil Holden Gavin Mullholland Ross Iannocarro Cris Janson-Piers Jeffet Jenkins