All power to Boris's elbow!

The Daily Mirror reports this morning that the police are confiscating guns, knives and axes from children as young as eight. These are carried by children on their way to school because they fear attack. In a survey a third of young people considered that it is perfectly acceptable to carry these weapons. Almost half of teenagers in a sample of 355 said they knew someone who had been a victim of crime.

Between 2005 and 2007 934 such weapons were taken from pupils at schools, or almost three every day. In number half of the haul was of knives, but there were also 9 mm. revolvers and stun guns.

So we hope that Boris succeeds in driving weapons off our streets and out of schools. Once they have gone, there should be no excuse for carrying them. And we hope that his success will be copied by other areas, and so remove a major fear of old and young alike.