>Let me put this plainly: it is unheard of for a working-class boy from a stable family to commit a horrific knife crime because he saw stupid stuff on the internet.
>That’s the story Adolescence tells. Jamie comes from a warm family and has a strong dad who loves him. Yet he suddenly finds himself in the grip of blind murderous fury because a girl posted a mick-taking emoji on his Instagram page.
>This isn’t an “urgent and vital” truth the world must hear – it’s hogwash. It’s a scenario that exists entirely in the heads of Adolescence’s aloof producers and its delirious cheerleaders in the cultural elite.
>The truth about knife crime in Britain, and the online subcultures that glorify it, is far more complicated. And far more discomfiting. The terrible reality is that Britain’s black boys from fatherless homes are the most likely to get swept up in knife violence.
>A government study in 2022 found that black Londoners, despite making up only 13 per cent of the capital’s population, were responsible for 61 per cent of knife murders.
>Or what about the subculture of Islamism? Hundreds of Britain’s Muslim men and boys were enticed into the murderous arms of Islamic State. There was a point in the 2010s when more British Muslims were fighting for jihadist militias overseas than were serving in Britain’s own armed forces. The violence these young men visited on women, Christians, Kurds and homosexuals in Syria and Iraq was truly hellish. Yet you want us to have sleepless nights over a fictional skinny kid called Jamie?

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