No exploitative image here Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland today have – Mother of alleged stabbing victim hands out kits to stop bleeding It’s a heart-breaking but inspiring story of a mother’s courage. However, BBC Scotland is allegedly a news agency with a royal charter obliging it to inform us and part of that informing requires context. Is this common, is it less or more common here, is there a trend? First year journalism students would fail if their work had no context. Here it is: First, Murder by stabbing in Scotland has fallen in a steady trend to half of the … Continue reading As BBC Scotland pounce on one ‘alleged’ stabbing what they don’t want you to know – murder by knife and possession of knives have plummeted but only in Scotland