One piece I need to write this year is on the completely fabricated notion, held widely across the spectrum in the US, of London (by extension ‘England’) as a cesspit of violent crime when the data (which I recently looked into) not only does not support the ‘knife crime epidemic’ narrative but shows every major city in the US not only more violent and with a highly likelihood of getting you stabbed despite the proliferation of firearms.
It’s bizarre to me how American liberals and racist MAGA types are on the same side of this narrative.
England is such a weird place, man. No guns so the criminals carry swords, no drugs so everybody's fucked off ale and magic sleeping powders, widespread social panic that witches and wizards are turning little boys into girls, they're fr still living in the Middle Ages over there