- but someone's got to say it. The Government should just - grab the bull by the horns and say, right, you're feeding your kids chips, plus they're roaming around stabbing each other half the time. Sorry. Off to the sterilisation clinic with you, matey?

It's certainly an argument. Because the way things are I should think it's safer wandering around Baghdad than it is wandering around Tottenham on a Saturday night.

They have these metal detectors at the schools nowadays.

The mind boggles.

It does. Though I have to say I read somewhere that the crime rate was actually decreasing. And the whole stabbing teenager thing is all just a media-made storm in a teacup. Like the credit crunch. These newspapers fix on an idea and suddenly it's the new hot topic. One week it's Jade Goody. The next it's knife crime.

So - it's going down is it?

There is actually less knife and gun crime now than there was - you know - before. That's what I read.