Are you saying that this report is untrue - are you dissing all the contributors to it? Or are you simply relying on good old character assassination to discredit the viewpoint? David Leppard From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Leppard is a
British journalist and former editor of
The Sunday Times investigative unit, the
Insight team. He is the author of books on the bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103, the
Waco siege, and
Special Branch, the British counter-terrorism and national-security police. He was responsible for a 1995 story suggesting Michael Foot, the former leader of the Labour party, had been an agent for the KGB. This later proved to be incorrect and the paper apologised.
This was however a rare glitch in an otherwise impressive record.
Leppard was nominated as Journalist of the Year in the 1990 British Press Awards.
There you have it, straight from your dear old Wiki. I believe his record stands up well compared with that of our slippery government. Ex agents of the KGB is a very shadowy subject here, and one about which there is still great speculation. There is no reason to dismiss this report in such cavalier fashion. Regarding youth crime and knife-crime, please see the links on my post 25 - George Orwell thread.