The New Statesman.

Is Britain becoming a country of mass violence?

On Saturday evening, a Doncaster to London train was forced to stop in Huntingdon

after 11 people were injured in a stabbing spree.

One person, a member of trained staff, remains in a critical condition.

Anthony Williams, a 32-year-old British National,

was charged on Monday with 10 counts of attempted murder.

I'm Olly Dougmore, and this is the New Statesman podcast.

Joining me today are Anoush Shakelian and Rachel Cunliff.

Hello.

Anush, you've written this week about the changing nature of knife crime.

What have you found out?

Well, I found it really interesting because after the news of the Huntington attack, I had

a look at the stats.

And what really stood out for me is that knife crime is changing where it hits in the country.

So it's actually rising a lot faster in sort of suburbia in English provinces than it is in the urban centres.

You know, we usually associate knife crime with the inner city.

And actually, in England, the highest rise on last year was in Cambridgeshire, which is where Peter Britt is, which is where the suspect of this attack is from.

And the train was going through there as

well. And within London, the biggest rises were in outer London areas, which you might not

associate with knife crime as well, places like Richmond and Kingston, and Hillingdon, which is

also very relevant because less than a week before the Huntington attack, you had this triple

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