This is wrong... People in England should be required to get a license to operate cutlery in their kitchens.
Which offers a clue as to the feigned "concern" that is asserted within this Telegraph opinion piece.
Good times.
First they outlaw the guns, then they outlaw the knives. What's next? Sporks?
I hear you. If the kids want a knife they will make, buy or steal one. This time the regulators have to see the impracticality of the policy whether they admit it or not.
The world wasn't yet completely insane when you were a yute. Nowadays you would be placed on ritalin and put into a group home for daring to posess such fearsome implements of death, and possibly be executed for being resourceful enough to make them yourself.
These sweet dears in England can outlaw knives, then in a few years they can outlaw tree limbs. What do these dimwits fail to understand about getting undesirables out of society? Lock them up, deport them, exile them, kill them. Expecting that violence will go down because the gummint outlaws the latest weapon is a fool's errand!
I remember gettting my first pocket knife when I was 6. It was yellow with brushed nickle and had 2 blades. I remember going to the 5 and dime and picking it out from a display board and my Dad giving it to me. Nice memory.
I hate the wussified mess Western Civilization has become.
We're (USA) next.
What insanity. Knives are one of the first tools ever made or used by primitive man... and these fools somehow think that not allowing young men and women to *buy* knives will prevent mischief?
I think it will have the opposite effect. The government that refuses to trust me with a pocket knife deserves no loyalty and commands no respect.
The hidden story here is those shadowy underground shoppes that sell not only knives, but [shudder] even SPOONS! At least nobody has been caught dealing in the dreaded SPORK!
Guess it's hard to get a game of Mumbly Peg going in the UK nowadays.
I had a forge forced by the exhaust from an old Rexair vacumn cleaner before I was 16. Modern kids won't likely get that sweaty and dirty, however.
All of the knives in the photo are kitschen knives. What bunch of whining pansies.
apparently you have to be 21 to buy normal dinner knives or FORKS now. how is a 20 year old living on their own supposed to eat their food? with a spoon or just their hands? i’m outraged at not being able to buy basic cutlery for myself. it’s near enough an infringement upon human rights...