The Mother’s Story

The opening programme to the Disarming Britain season tonight was something of an eye-opener.
And not just because Paula, the mother in question, wore her dead son’s eye on a chain round her neck.
Since the fatal double shooting of Paula’s son Eugene aged just 25 she’s done workshops in schools aiming to steer kids away from [...]

From Kidulthood to Adulthood

Finally, Noel Clarke’s sequel to Kidulthood, Adulthood, reaches the English regions.
And it was worth the wait.
The kids might have grown up – in terms of age at least – but some of them just can’t leave the past behind. Or the need to carry weapons.
Sam, in Kidulthood the schoolboy killer of classmate Trife, finds his [...]

The Truth About Street Weapons

Tonight at 8pm, Channel 4 will broadcast ‘The Truth About Street Weapons‘
2008 has sen a staggering number of teenage gang and knife attacks on Britain’s streets with a death toll comparable to that of our troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In this edition of Dispatches, part of the Disarming Britain season which examines the effect [...]

links for 2008-06-29

Channel 4 – News – Dispatches – The Truth About Street Weapons
2008 has seen a staggering number of teenage gang and knife attacks on Britain’s streets with a death toll comparable to that of our troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Guns and Knives
This morning four officers from the Armed Response Unit brought the ‘Guns and [...]

16-year old stabbed to death

On the eve of Channel 4’s Disarming Britain TV season, yet another teenager is stabbed to death in London – the 17th so far this year.

ITN reports:
Two 16-year-olds have been arrested after the teenage brother of a former soap actress was stabbed to death in a London street.
Ben Kinsella, 16, is alleged to have [...]

“Why I carry a knife…”

Your views on the issues raised by Disarming Britain are diverse, complex and always fascinating. Here are the views of somebody who carries a weapon:
i am a 19 yr old knife carryer and theas is my reson. the subject of weapons, gun and knife crime is a subject i am very fond of for a [...]

Dead Ends videos

Here are two videos about Dead Ends, the video game we described here. First, the trailer – and then the making of the game.

That’s progress for you…

Convicted killers could go free if the UK’s law lords have their way – and intimidated witnesses are denied the right to anonymity during court cases.
While Jack Straw and his men try desperately to rush through a bill protecting the use of anonymous witnesses by next week, lawyers for two of four men found guilty [...]

We’re txting in the rain… just txting in the rain…

Last night we hosted the first of our two our two TXTual Healing events in Brick Lane, London. As soon as it got dark we started projecting various pieces of artwork and questions on to the wall. We had a great spot on Dray Walk out side the Big Chill which meant despite [...]

STOP!

Here’s a cool song called STOP! by a i:Candy.
As lead singer Ashli Wright says:

As a teenage band ( we’re aged 17-18 ) this sort of stuff affects us, although it seems that the media are seemingly focused on the gun problem being one that mainly affects the black community, whereas knives affect everyone – and [...]