It seems to have started at least three years ago in soulless American towns that were beset by twerking at school discos and minor drug offences and has now found its way over to these shores. Parents across the pond began shaming by standing their teenagers at busy intersections wearing sandwich boards around their necks announcing truths such as: “I stole money. I wasn’t raised to do that,” and “I sneak boys in at 3am and don’t respect my parents or grandparents.” Local news anchors would soon appear with a microphone and camera to interview the sobbing child while dad stroked his goatie beard and hammered home the humiliation by explaining his logic on TV: basically that he’d tried everything else and now meant business.