How shocking that a teenager under 18 could easily buy knives from so many shops, exposing the ban as worthless.
Politicians pledging ever tougher laws and penalties for crimes with blades are guilty of misleading propaganda when those already in place aren’t enforced in the first place.
We may be witnessing another corrosive impact of Tory cuts and austerity when fewer spot checks by trading standards encourage unscrupulous shop keepers desperate for sales to look the other way.
With knife crime a lethal danger in too many communities and police concerned about young people arming themselves, we’ve exposed a scandal with this investigation.
The Government either gives trading standards the resources to protect the public or ministers will risk blood on their hands.
And instead of forever announcing fresh legislation, let’s implement the laws that exist. Or more lives, including those of the young, will be lost needlessly to knife crime.
Keir's vote risk
When public ownership of energy and water is popular and fury grows at soaring bills, this is an odd time for Keir Starmer to drop taking back control.
A man who advocated common ownership to wear the Labour crown now ditching a manifesto vote winner is taking a big risk.
Because simply restoring public ownership of a fragmented rail industry may not be sufficient to rally some to Labour.
After today's confusion, the party needs to give people vivid reasons to vote for it and put Mr Starmer in Downing Street.
Spat’s a gem
How much a Tory earns and spends does matter when Liz Truss ally Nadine Dorries attacks Rishi Sunak’s £3,500 suit.
Never again can the Conservatives accuse critics of politics of envy for raising the wealth of rulers but they can charge Dorries, one of their own, of hypocrisy when she boasted of spending £6,000 on diamond earrings.
Blue-on-blue attacks are a governing body disintegrating before our very eyes.
