Today is Valentine’s Day. But where is love on the streets? I don’t see it.

Look at what I found, hanging on the railings of a little park on Northfield Avenue, Ealing.  This is Ealing – known, when I was growing up, as the “Queen of the Suburbs”!  A most conventional, law-abiding, family neighbourhood. And here we have yet another brutal murder on the streets of London.  I know this park well.  It’s opposite what used to be the local “flea pit” cinema, a place I used to visit frequently with my friends.  It then got bought up and for years was a popular haunt for the latest Bollywood films.  Now the site is a block of flats with a bus stop outside.  The park is just the same as in my day.  But we never had murders.  I am appalled. 

I hope I don’t stop being shocked because that would mean I have become desensitised to the death and destruction going on around me and that I have accepted the degradation we have sunk to. 

I am truly "disgusted of West London" now! 

And here’s another, from the Evening Standard

Convent boys stabbed in gang ambush

Two convent-school boys were knifed and left for dead after being ambushed by a teenage gang in stab-proof vests.

In Stab Proof Vests!!!  What the hell is going on?!

The boys were set upon in a terrifying "pre-planned" attack witnessed by parents waiting to collect their children from a nursery.

Horrified onlookers - many of them young children - watched as the pair were attacked by several youths shortly before 4pm yesterday in Polygon Road, near the British Library in Euston.

One witness is quoted

Two black guys jumped out - one of them had his jacket undone and I could see he had a stab vest on. It looked like a planned attack.

They rushed past me and got the two friends against the wall. The boys were fighting for their lives, they were struggling. I think just one of the older youths stabbed them and they jumped back in the car and drove off.

Anyone with information should contact Camden CID on 020 8733 6578 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.

The streets of Blighty are a battlefield.  I want to leave this battlefield.