I’m not sure if you’re all familiar with Monty Python? At least half of you surely? Right, so, has anyone heard of Fawlty Towers? Starring John Cleese and Prunella Scales, Fawlty Towers was a classic British comedy which only lasted two series, unfortunately. Anyways, it starred Andrew Sachs as a bumbling Spanish waiter who became a well-loved character despite his mishaps.

Now, almost thirty years later, Mr Sachs (pronounced sacs) is mostly retired with a nice family. Imagine his horror when after being unable to attend a guest spot on a radio show, was left listening to lewd comments on his voicemail about his 23 year old grand-daughter.

Turns out, after being told of Mr Sachs no-show, the presenters Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross called Andrew Sachs voicemail and left numerous comments about sleeping with his grand-daughter, how she was a member of a satanticsluts website and how they hoped they didn’t give him a heart-attack. Sachs is 78. This doesn’t sound like much but these messages were allowed to be played on the radio show. These segments of the show were pre-recorded and could have been pulled.

My problem isn’t really with this story. It’s more to do with a recent problem Britain is having with cyber-bullying; - it’s comes to the government’s attention that more and more children are being bullied by means of email, text message, or mobile calls (um...cell phone calls, to ye yanks).

My point is, I fail to see the difference between that and what Brand and Ross did to that old man. They called him, leaving many messages with the intent to harass. Is this not the same as bullying?

How old do you have to be before it’s not bullying? If these guys aren’t disciplined for this, then what kind of message does that send out to the kids that already hassle others?

For the timeline of the radio incident, you can catch one here; - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7694989.stm