Know Your Enemy

"Banter is not humour; banter is what people have when they lack a sense of humour. Banter is a catch-all word for idiocy that warns the rest of us that Here Be Lads. Banter is Soccer AM. It is Andy Gray. It is middle-aged men on Top Gear pretending that they are edgy outsiders by mocking society's weakest, then going home to Chipping Norton where they live two doors down from the Prime Minister."

Hear hear - sense surprisingly to be found in the Torygraph courtesy of Tom Chivers.

(Thanks to Zoe for the link.)