Only radical action will end this lethal search for 'respect'

Decriminalising drugs could be one weapon in the battle to rid Britain's inner-city streets of the menace of gang culture Juress Kika, one of the three men who stabbed schoolboy Ben Kinsella, was recorded secretly in a police van describing the murder. "See when it happened, yeah. Like boom. It was like a kinda quick ting. Like Boom. Went down the road, come back up. Boom, boom. Finished. Boom. Ghost. You get what I'm saying?" Somewhere here is the unconscious acknowledgement of the ease with which...