The fatherless culture behind the surge in violence

MORE policing, more knife arches. This was how knife violence at the Notting Hill Carnival was addressed this year. Essential, without doubt, but since last year we’ve seen no challenge to the culture that has long contributed to this ‘spike’ in deadly violence.

All this week we’ve been calling a radical new vision that rejects the Left-liberal-individual-feminist tradition (the cause of family disintegration) and that unashamedly returns to our social conservative Burkean roots. In today’s republication, Laura Perrins turns her sights on to fatherhood – or the lack it – and the need to restore men to this role and responsibility. This article was first published on May 18, 2018.

The bank holiday saw not only soaring temperatures but also an ‘increased police presence’ on the streets of London as the death toll from knife and gun violence continued to rise. A 17-year-old was shot and killed, and three aged 13, 15 and 22 were shot and wounded.

We have blogged repeatedly on how police tactics and not just numbers can cause an increase or decrease in deadly violence in a city.

What we have not talked about yet is how the culture has long contributed to this ‘spike’ in deadly violence.

Prepare yourself to hear over the next week or so all manner of reasons for why young men (and it is usually men) decide to shoot and stab each other to death. It is social media, it is the thug lifestyle glorified by the music industry, it is austerity that has seen cuts to ‘youth services’.

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