People like Cherie Blair imagine that London is a ‘progressive’ city, at the forefront of something or other. Their vanity demands it, and therefore it has to be so.

Instead, London today is quite simply New York in the 1970′s. The ‘software patches’ it needs were been applied in the US more than twenty years ago. The main one required recognizing that certain people, if you can’t implement a better solution, have to be locked up for most of their lives, to deter others and to protect the public.

In order to further postpone recognition of this, elite liberals have to resort to ever greater absurdities. Emergency room doctors in the UK got together recently for example and announced that the problem is that the kitchen knives over there are “too sharp”.