The murder of little children by Alex Rudakubana in Southport, Wales, on the 29th of July 2024 feels almost like ancient history now. Nearly every day Brits learn of another stabbing of innocent people on the streets of their country by individuals who, well, let’s just say aren’t wearing corduroys and tweed jackets.
A man was murdered and two other civilians (including a child) were injured from knife wounds by an Afghani in Uxbridge at the end of last month. Earlier that month, a gang of Kurdish illegal immigrants roamed Dorset’s seaside town of Boscombe attacking people with machetes. This month, an ethnically Caribbean man knifed people on a train pulling into Huntingdon railway station. We have grown accustomed to such violence as an everyday trait of modern British life.
A friend of mine who lives in south London was unable to get to his house on the way home from work on two separate occasions this week; police had barriered off the streets on account of knifings on those days. In his area of London, murders occur every single day, carried out with so-called ‘zombie knives’—knives with serrated edges and hooked blades, designed to do as much internal injury as possible.
“How can you continue to live there?” I asked my friend. He explained to me that, being white, he deems himself more or less safe given that nearly all these knife attacks have to do with turf wars between black gangs. “One does, though, need to factor in occasionally getting mugged at knifepoint, which does happen from time to time” he concluded, “but as long as you hand over your watch, wallet, and phone without arguing, you’ll generally be okay.”
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