London’s mayor is addressing the causes of knife crime with progressive policies, while the US president is creating division, says Dr Jeremy Oliver
Donald Trump’s attack on Sadiq Khan for not preventing recent knife deaths in London (Trump hits out at Khan again over stabbings in London, 17 June) was neither appropriate nor fair.
As a clinical psychologist working with young people in Tower Hamlets, east London, I see so much of their hope, potential and optimism extinguished by the grinding reality of lack of proper educational opportunities, lack of job prospects and genuine bewilderment about why some people have so much money while they, and their families, cannot afford to eat.
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