Media hysteria risks normalising knife crime
The hysteria about knife crime could cause real damage before it fades awayFirst Posted July 15, 2008

fled to the west with his family in 1956 after the defeat of the Hungarian revolution. A student radical in the Sixties, he was active in the Trotskyist movement in the 70s. A sociologist and author commentating on culture and society, he is now based at the University of Kent in Canterbury. His latest book is Politics of Fear; Beyond Left and Right (Continuum Press). www.frankfuredi.com