Shouldn't humorlessness also be legislated upon, and thus somehow bred out of the species?

I always found this song to be deeply offensive. Come to think of it, I found ALL disco music to be deeply offensive. Never mind.

The world is becoming more petty every moment...

Why was the singer the only one arrested? The rest of the band were playing the song, too.

Should they be arrested as accomplices? After all, they knew they lyrics to the song, even though they may not have vocalized them. And it is doubtful the singer would have committed this crime if his band had refused to play the music for the song.

Does the act of singing back-up lyrics make one guilty?

Perhaps singing nonsense back-up words like "doo wopp" is okay, but singing back-up lyrics that contribute to the idea of the song should be verbotten?

Talk about ab adsurdum.

I send such reminders of what Britain has become to my own circle of friends and family under the heading "Alas, Poor Britain." Actually, they let it happen to themselves though, just as we may.

Here's another article from the Daily Telegraph: "Police hunt joker who drew Hitler moustache." Read it and contemplate the police resources "invested" in that investigation.

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His problem wasn't singing such a song, but picking the wrong song. Had he, instead, chosen "Turning Japanese" well, the alleged racism of the title would have been balanced out by the free-love s*xual connotations of the expression that title is about (and if you don't know what "turning Japanese" means in the slang of the song, well, the text filters here that made me asterisk-ize the word above won't let me tell you--just know it is a solitary physical activity that might cause one's eyes to get all squinty and figure it out for yourself.)

Ad absurdly hilarious, Ben Murphy, and let's add that anybody who was in the audience should be investigated as an accomplice.

Furthermore, as part of the campaign to make The Right Not To Be Offended the most important right of all, all audiences should be screened in advance of performances of, say, Spanish Eyes or California Girls, to make nobody of the particular ethnicity or geographical origin being warbled about is present.

Alternatively, warning signs could be displayed in advance. Better to be safe than sorry...

Add this one to the list of racially aggravating songs - "Turning Japanese" by the Vapors.

bye, bye britain. Hard to believe how this country has fallen in just 3 generations. It's vying with canada for title of "stupidest society" in the commonwealth.

Bar owner Sean Ware told the Sun newspaper: ‘The song is in no way racist and nor is Simon. There is no way he would abuse anyone.

I trust he's right but it's utterly beside the point. Once you go down the road as treating "racism" as a crime, then all sorts of thoughtcrime can be dreamt up by the authoritarians. That he has to defend himself at all is the real issue here.