August 12, 2024 • 6 mins
A man has been arrested after a stabbing in London's Leicester Square that's left an 11-year-old girl needing hospital treatment, and a 34-year-old woman with minor injuries.
Police aren't treating the incident as terror-related.
UK police forces remain on high alert after days of riots earlier this month, which were triggered by online posts wrongly identifying a suspected killer of three girls in northern England as an Islamist migrant.
UK Correspondent Rod Liddle told Mike Hosking that immediately after the attack, the right came online saying that it’s happened again and that they’re up to no good.
He said that there’s no evidence whatsoever that the attacker was Muslim, however there is a fair bit of evidence that the person who stopped the attack and took the knife off of him was.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
UK bound ron Little. Good morning mate, good morning. Before
we get to the dripful business and Lister Square, I
must congratulate you on the riots. When we talked to
you last week, you said the drizzle was going to come,
and when the drizzle arrives, all the weirdoes go home.
And sure enough that's that. Have we flushed through it?
They all turned up and court had they tell abioseed sentences?
Are they all in jail or what?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well? Yeah, yeah. But the other thing which I mentioned
I think has happened as well, which is that the
football season began, they're all back on the terraces. You know.
It was it was a convocation of largely football hooligans
who were enjoying the hot weather and decided to go
(00:38):
out and have a fight with the old bill. And
let's all forget. Yes, they did terrorize some Muslim people
and some people who they thought we were too stupid
to realize that they weren't, but that their chief, their
chief enemy was the police. So you know, they find
themselves in Core forty three in Middlesborough, and a whole
(01:00):
bunch in Liverpool, more in Harleypool, more in Darlington, and
are getting lengthy sentences, which is giving fuel to what
we're now going to have. And this is going to
last a lot longer than the riots themselves, which is
the post riot battle of the chattering classes and the
(01:24):
politicians who caused it, Why it happened, Who's to blame?
And you know, one of the arguments is two tier policing.
Why is someone getting three years for nicking a policeman's
batten when in Black Lives Matter no one got anything
at all for destroying a statue and throwing it in
a river. It's very interesting and you see all these
(01:47):
accusations and counter accusations flying backwards and forwards, and you know,
obviously I objected to the riots themselves, but I objected
them on the principle that the organizers should have known
that we'd have been in for four months of count
on what you us speak called Twitter, Facebook and indeed
(02:07):
every bit of.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Social media exactly Lister Square, right. My understanding was that
the people who got stabbed and a living year on
their mum weren't known to the stabber. So you can't
go through Lister Square without taking your life in your hands. Now, reputationally,
this cannot be good for London which already had a
reputation for being a bit dodgy around knives.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I think that's right, and I think it's right as
well that you know, we've seen that Paris has suffered
a downstair in tourism that's so enormously popular because of
the problems which are associated with Paris and violence and
upheaval and bonds and so on. And yes, indeed it's
yet another stabbing, similar it would seem to the one
(02:53):
in Southport where where two people unknown to the stabber
were attacked by a bloke in Leicester Square and the
girl is in hospital, a little girl, and the mother
was attacked as well. And immediately, of course, exactly what
(03:13):
I was talking about earlier, the right came on and said,
look it's happened again. They're up to no good again,
all rather confusedly, because there is no evidence whatsoever that
the attacker was Muslim. There is a lot of evidence
that the man who stopped the attack and took the
knife off the guy was a bloke called Abdullah, who
(03:34):
I would bet my bottom dollar probably is a Muslim.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, that's a very good point. I think he was Indian,
to say, James Redcliff by the way, as the name
you're know Manchester United, speaking of football not dominant. He
said he no longer feels safe in London. He wouldn't
wear a watch fear or alarmist.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Oh, I think not worry your watch in London is
a very very sensible thing to do. Indeed, the major
crime in London, if you exclude lunatic stabbing people for
no reason whatsoever, is the snap theft, which is usually
done from mopets or bicycles, and usually done by young
men from ethnic minorities at late at night. If you
(04:14):
are stupid enough to walk through any part of London,
and I mean any part of London apart from maybe
Downing Street after nine o'clock at night or well before
then in the winter months where in fatcy jewelry or
holding a very expensive foam, then you are asking for trouble.
(04:35):
But I think in fairness, in fairness, mate, you know,
I think that's probably been true for a decade, maybe
two decades. And you know, I used to live in Brixton,
which was known for its riots, known for its crime,
known for its attacks and thefts, and I would certainly
I would a avoid walking through Brixton alone, very late
(04:55):
at night, and if I did so, I would be inconspicuous.
I wouldn't wear anything flashy and I would keep to myself.
There has to be some notion of being sensible about
these things. I don't think you'd do any differently if
you were in New York or Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
What about the Olympics? Quick recap on that. Did you
do well or not.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well? We finished behind the Australians, which which is an
appalling thing to happen and hasn't happened for some years,
And we have now vowed that at the next Olympics,
wherever they are presumably I can't remember whether awful Los
Angeles right, that we will get our own back. It
was a It was a pretty good performance by GB.
(05:42):
I think we came sixth or seventh, but that was
only because we didn't quite get enough golds, but we
got we got enough bronze medals and silver medals and
our overall medal hole put a third I think it was,
which is remarkable, you know, ahead of the French, which
which is I would say my crucial point to beat
(06:04):
the French, since we've seen over the course of these
Olympics an immense amount of rather petty and childish chardon
Freuder directed at the French A for their bizarre opening ceremony,
b for the fact that it dared to rain on them,
and see for the bad food which was served according
(06:24):
to the Brits in the Olympic village. And four for
a fairly muted closing ceremony which was eclipsed, of course
by the Americans taking over. So there's been a degree
of satisfaction here, even if we didn't come third in
the table as usual.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Good to catch up with you might see you thirsday.
Ron Little in the UK. For more from the Mic
Asking Breakfast, listen live to news talks. It'd be from
six am weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
UK bound ron Little. Good morning mate, good morning. Before
we get to the dripful business and Lister Square, I
must congratulate you on the riots. When we talked to
you last week, you said the drizzle was going to come,
and when the drizzle arrives, all the weirdoes go home.
And sure enough that's that. Have we flushed through it?
They all turned up and court had they tell abioseed sentences?
Are they all in jail or what?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well? Yeah, yeah. But the other thing which I mentioned
I think has happened as well, which is that the
football season began, they're all back on the terraces. You know.
It was it was a convocation of largely football hooligans
who were enjoying the hot weather and decided to go
(00:38):
out and have a fight with the old bill. And
let's all forget. Yes, they did terrorize some Muslim people
and some people who they thought we were too stupid
to realize that they weren't, but that their chief, their
chief enemy was the police. So you know, they find
themselves in Core forty three in Middlesborough, and a whole
(01:00):
bunch in Liverpool, more in Harleypool, more in Darlington, and
are getting lengthy sentences, which is giving fuel to what
we're now going to have. And this is going to
last a lot longer than the riots themselves, which is
the post riot battle of the chattering classes and the
(01:24):
politicians who caused it, Why it happened, Who's to blame?
And you know, one of the arguments is two tier policing.
Why is someone getting three years for nicking a policeman's
batten when in Black Lives Matter no one got anything
at all for destroying a statue and throwing it in
a river. It's very interesting and you see all these
(01:47):
accusations and counter accusations flying backwards and forwards, and you know,
obviously I objected to the riots themselves, but I objected
them on the principle that the organizers should have known
that we'd have been in for four months of count
on what you us speak called Twitter, Facebook and indeed
(02:07):
every bit of.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Social media exactly Lister Square, right. My understanding was that
the people who got stabbed and a living year on
their mum weren't known to the stabber. So you can't
go through Lister Square without taking your life in your hands. Now, reputationally,
this cannot be good for London which already had a
reputation for being a bit dodgy around knives.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I think that's right, and I think it's right as
well that you know, we've seen that Paris has suffered
a downstair in tourism that's so enormously popular because of
the problems which are associated with Paris and violence and
upheaval and bonds and so on. And yes, indeed it's
yet another stabbing, similar it would seem to the one
(02:53):
in Southport where where two people unknown to the stabber
were attacked by a bloke in Leicester Square and the
girl is in hospital, a little girl, and the mother
was attacked as well. And immediately, of course, exactly what
(03:13):
I was talking about earlier, the right came on and said,
look it's happened again. They're up to no good again,
all rather confusedly, because there is no evidence whatsoever that
the attacker was Muslim. There is a lot of evidence
that the man who stopped the attack and took the
knife off the guy was a bloke called Abdullah, who
(03:34):
I would bet my bottom dollar probably is a Muslim.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, that's a very good point. I think he was Indian,
to say, James Redcliff by the way, as the name
you're know Manchester United, speaking of football not dominant. He
said he no longer feels safe in London. He wouldn't
wear a watch fear or alarmist.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Oh, I think not worry your watch in London is
a very very sensible thing to do. Indeed, the major
crime in London, if you exclude lunatic stabbing people for
no reason whatsoever, is the snap theft, which is usually
done from mopets or bicycles, and usually done by young
men from ethnic minorities at late at night. If you
(04:14):
are stupid enough to walk through any part of London,
and I mean any part of London apart from maybe
Downing Street after nine o'clock at night or well before
then in the winter months where in fatcy jewelry or
holding a very expensive foam, then you are asking for trouble.
(04:35):
But I think in fairness, in fairness, mate, you know,
I think that's probably been true for a decade, maybe
two decades. And you know, I used to live in Brixton,
which was known for its riots, known for its crime,
known for its attacks and thefts, and I would certainly
I would a avoid walking through Brixton alone, very late
(04:55):
at night, and if I did so, I would be inconspicuous.
I wouldn't wear anything flashy and I would keep to myself.
There has to be some notion of being sensible about
these things. I don't think you'd do any differently if
you were in New York or Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
What about the Olympics? Quick recap on that. Did you
do well or not.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well? We finished behind the Australians, which which is an
appalling thing to happen and hasn't happened for some years,
And we have now vowed that at the next Olympics,
wherever they are presumably I can't remember whether awful Los
Angeles right, that we will get our own back. It
was a It was a pretty good performance by GB.
(05:42):
I think we came sixth or seventh, but that was
only because we didn't quite get enough golds, but we
got we got enough bronze medals and silver medals and
our overall medal hole put a third I think it was,
which is remarkable, you know, ahead of the French, which
which is I would say my crucial point to beat
(06:04):
the French, since we've seen over the course of these
Olympics an immense amount of rather petty and childish chardon
Freuder directed at the French A for their bizarre opening ceremony,
b for the fact that it dared to rain on them,
and see for the bad food which was served according
(06:24):
to the Brits in the Olympic village. And four for
a fairly muted closing ceremony which was eclipsed, of course
by the Americans taking over. So there's been a degree
of satisfaction here, even if we didn't come third in
the table as usual.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Good to catch up with you might see you thirsday.
Ron Little in the UK. For more from the Mic
Asking Breakfast, listen live to news talks. It'd be from
six am weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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