Corporal punishment

Better watch out for Corporal Punishment, Holmes weighs in. I saw him over there just before. 

Arbitrary conduct, chicanery, unlawful corporal punishments, acts of brutality and sadism, liquidation of no-longer-convenient accomplices, theft and black-market profiteering. 

Corporal punishment has been abolished in maintained schools since August 1987, the definition of corporal punishment includes not only use of the cane but other forms of physical chastisement for example, slapping, rough handling and throwing missiles such as chalk... 

A similar generalized build-up took place in editorials, letters to the press and in statements by local MPs. At an early stage some specific policy proposals were also made, and these increased under the impact of sensitization and the crystallization of opinions. Thus out of twenty-three letters printed in the Evening Argus in the four days after Whitsun 1964, seven specifically proposed corporal punishment. 

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