At Home with Ronan Keating

Deansgate

Micah. Deansgate. Friday morning.

Grand Theft Auto IV

It just struck me this week, with violent acts taking place up and down the country, how uncomfortable I am with the large-scale and indiscriminate promotion of a game that gets people to practise in private the very things we're working to prevent in public.

If you want to join in with an equally widespread subversion of these images of violence, blu-tak a white paper ribbon or pop a bright flower down the barrel of a nonchalantly wielded gun, indeed anything that might redeem the images that, let's face it, are put in front of our eyes whether we want to see them or not.