Shame on those who defend ‘the loving smack’ – it’s just plain violence against children | Catherine Bennett

As Scotland moves on, the young in the rest of Britain will continue to sufferBack in 2012 – around the same time, it appears, that he was starting his tech lessons with Jennifer Arcuri – Boris Johnson, as mayor of London, reached out to anxious smackers.Following the 2011 London riots, some parents, including the Tottenham MP David Lammy, thought Labour’s 2004 restrictions on hitting might be partly to blame for the disorder. These constraints, Lammy said, meant his constituen