noel emits
a wonderful wooden reason
One of these used Broken Heart (Martyn's DCM Remix) as well apparently.
Out to Hessle Audio crew I guess.
Out to Hessle Audio crew I guess.
Media stab frenzy
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wings cru
yeah there were a few martyn bits and then the token burial over the credits at the end. was a really interesting doc, they had people i used to deal with when i worked for manchester council on it.
I couldnt make it though Kids, knives... though, absolute joke of a show. I could only imagine some ridiculous cossick brass eye 'wind of change' finish topping the heavy handedness of the first half
I couldnt make it though Kids, knives... though, absolute joke of a show. I could only imagine some ridiculous cossick brass eye 'wind of change' finish topping the heavy handedness of the first half
crackerjack
Well-known member
As distinct from Panorama last night,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00c80gb.shtml?src=ip_potpw
It's almost like there's a theme...
Yougn Gunmen was ok-ish, in as much as you can do anything but scratch the surface of such a subject in 30mins
noel emits
a wonderful wooden reason
Mark Easton - Skeptical of knife epidemic
I have done a bit more number-crunching for a piece on tonight's BBC News at Ten and I think it is quite informative. By my calculations, knife crime has risen three times faster in London over the past five years than the rest of England. This, I think, demonstrates how the situation in the capital has driven the claims of an epidemic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2008/07/sceptical_of_knife_epidemic.html
I have done a bit more number-crunching for a piece on tonight's BBC News at Ten and I think it is quite informative. By my calculations, knife crime has risen three times faster in London over the past five years than the rest of England. This, I think, demonstrates how the situation in the capital has driven the claims of an epidemic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2008/07/sceptical_of_knife_epidemic.html
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
yer man Easton said:
This is quite telling - seems to fit into a category of 'Phenomena that get worse the more people know about them', perhaps along with the Bridgend suicides?
vimothy
yurp
& inflation.
& cthulhu
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
And CANDYMAN!
And also an itch, ache or other minor ailment/physiological annoyance that you'd quite forgotten about until someone asks you how you're doing or whether it's gone away yet.
's People?
mos dan
fact music
four stabbing deaths in london alone yesterday... this seems worryingly on-point. surely the only thing that could deflect tabloid attention now is a maddy/soham type story? it's the summer, so there's not going to be any politics to write about.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7501258.stm
Jesus, I think I'm just going to stop looking at the news altogether.
Fuck this, I'm going home, then to the pub.
mos dan
fact music
I expect everyone will have seen today's crime figures story, but if not http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7511192.stm
"[The figures] also show that while the risk of being a victim is at its lowest ever level, people still think that the rate is going up."
Brilliant. Another victory for the Broken Britain brigade.
"[The figures] also show that while the risk of being a victim is at its lowest ever level, people still think that the rate is going up."
Brilliant. Another victory for the Broken Britain brigade.
vimothy
yurp
Sells newspapers, innit.
On the other hand, crime is apparently above the national average where I live, which isn't great news.
Did anyone hear about the study that the Manchester Uni law school just published about gang membership? It was on the front of the Guardian the other day...
On the other hand, crime is apparently above the national average where I live, which isn't great news.
Did anyone hear about the study that the Manchester Uni law school just published about gang membership? It was on the front of the Guardian the other day...
this is an interesting story from hattie collins about DJ Ironik's stay with me track but it does seems to be a little bit exaggerated, and more about missing gran than yr mans.
http://music.guardian.co.uk/urban/story/0,,2291010,00.html
http://music.guardian.co.uk/urban/story/0,,2291010,00.html
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Crime like that probably happens more often in London than any other town or city just because it's such a huge place. If you look at rates per 1,000 people per year or whatever, I'm sure there are much worse places (hello, Glasgow!).
On the point about the likelihood of being a victim of a stabbing or mugging, it's stupid that Mr. and Mrs. Dailymailreader are terrified to leave their house for fear of being set upon by feral hoodies, because as other people have mentioned here, most kinds of crime (and even most violent crime) are actually decreasing. But that's small comfort to a black teenager in Lewisham or Edmonton for whom the possibility of ending up on the business end of someone's flick-knife is very real. I think Polly Tonybee had it about right a few days ago when she called teen-on-teen knife crime "a form of collective self-harm", and I think it's pretty poor form to tell people they shouldn't worry about it just because they're not likely to be a victim themselves.
noel emits
a wonderful wooden reason
So the actual figures are more of a victory for the 'Britain's not as broken as the broken Britain brigade believe, brigade.'
nomos
Administrator
not to make light of anything but...
Britain on alert for deadly new knife with exploding tip that freezes victims' organs - Daily Mail, of course
Also watch for attack dogs with bees up their noses and when they sneeze they shoot bees at you
Britain on alert for deadly new knife with exploding tip that freezes victims' organs - Daily Mail, of course
Also watch for attack dogs with bees up their noses and when they sneeze they shoot bees at you
mos dan
fact music
ROFL!!
i was talking about that knife with some friends last night. we decided it might have some handy culinary uses. for one thing it's a great way to make ice cubes when you need some for your g'n't when you're camping by a stream...