Dog Days

04/07/2008 by admin.

Wimbledon with its mixture of sunshine and (very occasional as yet) showers used to epitomise the English summer. Long days when cares fly away.

The dearth of real news at this time of the year used to be called the ’silly season’ in the media when stories of the ‘dog bites man’ variety pushed out the real news. Not so this year. Apart from the darkening view of the economy the dark side of our society seems to be laid bare - the dreadful murders of the two French students and the needless waste of life yet again in the murder of Ben Kinsella.

Is it really the result of the development of an underclass or just a manifestation of the lack of parental care and control and of any framework of moral values?  As Ben’s half-sister so plaintively and movingly said whatever it is it needs to be addressed  and corrected before more knives are used.

Our MPs might think about this as they vote against reforming their iniquitous ‘allowance’ system. There is little evidence to suggest that they do. Ministers continue to quote meaningless statistics on the alleged decline in knife crime and seem to imply that such incidents as Ben’s murder are an inconsequential blip on the fine New Labour society we have created. Shame on them!

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