O’Brien is wrong; Terry deserved to be sacked

Mike O’Brien, Minister of State at the Department of Health, has decided to enter the debate over the sacking of John Terry as captain of the England football team.  Unfortunately, Mike has chosen to do so using the arguably inappropriate medium of Twitter, which, since it confines posts to a maximum of 140 characters, affords little opportunity for the development of reasoned debate. Nevertheless, Mike, who is a highly intelligent lawyer, has apparently decided that his opinion on such a controversial moral issue can be satisfactorily encapsulated in fewer letters than those that appear on an HP sauce label, so here’s what he has to say: The sacking of Terry is crass. Capello has bowed to tabloid pressure. Infidelity is bad but I saw no signs of fatigue in his football. Sadly, Mike is missing the point, which is unfortunate, given that the whole point of Twitter is to be TO the point. ...