No matter. Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips did object. The case drove her to almost incoherent fury in her online diary. Take a deep breath before reading this sentence. It goes on a bit and the punctuation is not ideal.
"What's the fact that hoods are worn in order to intimidate innocent people and to obscure the faces of those who are about to attack or rob them so they cannot be identified by comparison with the right of such youths to 'personal development' - which of course will be stunted by having to display their faces, a horrific encroachment on their right to intimidate which will undoubtedly blight their lives and cause them to seek counselling for trauma."
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