<<Please can some common sence be brought back to our poor world.>
D747. I presume you mean "sense"? It is NOT commonsense to play with peoples' lives. Air Traffic Controllers are trained and licenced to an extremely high standard, just like pilots.
Heaven forbid that you should ever need major surgery, but would you have the same attitude if a surgeon took his child to work and let him get on with using the knives and forks? Sometime ago a pilot let his son fly the airliner.. with resulting considerable loss of life.
There are a lot of fools on this thread. I just hope that none of them, be they pilots or controllers, ever, ever have my life in their hands...