Bag's Rants

She must be a politician.

Reading this article about stabbings in the UK on the increase. Read here.

Besides the usual thoughts about how we are much safer, blah de blah I was just going on to the next article when I was intrigued by this quote from the article.

'Maralyn Woodford of the UK Trauma Audit and Research Network said: "There has been a significant increase in stabbing injuries since 2001. But it has remained at that 2001 level. There has not been a year on year increase since then in the UK."'

So, significant increase since 2001 but at the same time has remained at the 2001 level, which means no increase. So she confirms no increase by saying there has not been a year on year increase. Of course the last bit could mean one year it stayed static. The title of the article is 'Stabbings 'are on the increase' Gives you a certain view.

Let's see the numbers in these articles. That way we can add and subtract and make up our own minds.

posted by Bag @ 9:48 am