After Southport, Westminster is floundering. It should look to Idris Elba | Martin Kettle

R.It is a list of painful questions that left behind Britain wounded by a long shock to stab Soutbort. It starts to ask about the reason for the reason for Axel Rodakobana, who was imprisoned last week by virtue of the minimum for 52 years in prison. But soon it provides for broader issues than the policy of statecraft and politics. In particular, he asks if there are measures we can now take, perhaps, perhaps it will contribute to stopping Some of Rudakubana in the future Who did the same thing.

Here the issues become more essential. Family, paternity and motherhood problems. It provides very ready knives. The effect of social media. Poverty effect. The role of schools and exceptions. Police location. Prison repercussions. The effectiveness of youth services. Importance, if any, from ideology. All of these, and more. They are just subject addresses, and the doors for more detailed responses.

After the shock has been expressed, this is the place where politics and government will now lead the conversation. However, with some exceptions, this is not the discussion that politics and the government yet provided. This is a general deficit that all parties bear a share of responsibility. But he risks an annoying result. Southport lessons may be allowed to slide slowly and quietly in the British State Fund.

For work, as the government party, the policy response has so far been procedural. The Minister of Interior, YVette Cooper, established a general investigation in Soutbort, and was appointed David Anderson Review of the Terrorism ProgramJonathan Hall Ki Si was asked to report the potential amendments to the terrorist law, and he promised more restrictions on knife sales, and opened the door to break up the law of the court’s contempt.

All this is expected, even perfect. Cooper proves that he is one of the sure work ministers. But her salary is To a large extent, a defensive strategy. Inevitably, any changes are all in the future, and perhaps this way. More importantly, it is all that Cooper says that the government’s restrictions over public spending. So Cooper cannot get the front foot, and the players are not subject to making her life difficult by raising thorny issues.

Noticeably, no Conservatives. This is partly due to the fact that 14 years of government involved Britain, which Southport erupted, as well as the British state that was unable to intervene to prevent it. But this is also because the Conservative Party is always looking for their shoulders in reform. As a result, they often say what reform will say, rather than focusing on a serious policy or policy.

On the House of Commons on Monday, there was a major example of the way in which parts of the Conservative Party opposition became the main issues. On Sunday, Exchange published Thinktank policy in the focus of a copy of an internal paper from the Ministry of Interior that was leaked on potential changes on the legal definition of extremism, including women hate women and online misinformation. The paper was not government policy. However, on Monday, the governors in the front and the back photographed the queue to repay it for about an hour as if it were.

All of this was made for the high discontent over the alleged exhaustion Wokery. But in no way was a serious attempt to deal with some of the serious and difficult issues raised by Soutbort, not to mention making Britain closer to finding a solution. As such, unfortunately, Monday’s exchange was the response of Parliament so far.

There is no government or society that can completely prevent Southport. There is no network of control or preventive intervention that will be acceptable and effective. However, there are dangerous political options. Some of these were the topic of Wednesday BBC one documentary by Idris Elba On the crime of the knife. In fact, the ELBA program will be a best without limits to the dangerous policy makers than anything said in the rumors this week.

There were no cultural wars or conspiracy theories in Elba’s documentary, and a little misconception as well. ELBA instead focused on the facts. The crime of the knife has multiplied a decade ago. There are an average of four knives per week. Two -thirds of the white perpetrators. Most knives are specialized weapons, not kitchen tools, often purchased online, as in the case of Rudakubana.

But these are not irresistible trends, which cannot do anything. ELBA’s documentaries had ideas about what can be done. Social media glorify knives – restricting them. The imprisonment is expensive and sometimes leads to reverse results – spent money on the directional programs, which, as a police officer in Kovintry, argued, “definitely work”. Schools – example Rudakubana again – exclude – chances of re -repetition. Restore youth services budgets after years of hunger.

Although the central crime of the knife is any attempt to respond to politics on Soutbort, other things are also important. Prevention program is chaos. It should not be expanded but narrowed, while specialized programs should focus on people who have been called Care Starmer “the only” and “Misfits”. Government transparency and the most obvious use of language will not eliminate the influence of political conspiracy theories and carnivers, but will do something to confront them, and may increase confidence.

The problem with politics, a member of the Conservative Party noticed me this week, is that it links the points of disagreement. As the documentary Elba is also shown, this is not the place where the audience is located at all. The public gets a terrible problem, and many people do what they can to solve. It is time to pick up politics and government.