Spreading Culture....

But not one we'd like modern thugs to pick up again:

British Transport Police (BTP) has released images of three people who they want to speak to after the incident which took place at Elm Park Tube station on Saturday, February 24.

The 'incident'? Acid throwing. And for once, not the usual suspects:

 

Puzzling. I've been browsing the local press and social media, and can't see anyone claiming this is gang-related. On Facebook, several people have claimed the boys were targeted at random. 

But it seems to be more common these days, everywhere. Like it once was. 

On February 10 a 52-year-old woman was left with burns on her back and head after having a corrosive substance thrown over her in a pub in Basingstoke.The day after, a manhunt was launched after a man was attacked with a 'noxious substance' in St Laurence Graveyard in Ramsgate, Kent. The attacker fled the scene and the victim was rushed to hospital for treatment to burns at the back of his head. And the same day as this police officers were involved in a three-hour stand-off with an alleged 'acid attacker' who seized a London bus and threatened the driver and passengers with an unknown substance in Croydon.

And the 'experts' are puzzled. And have to fall back on old tropes.  

Prof. Gill told MailOnline earlier this month: 'With these attacks on the rise, the criminal justice system must ensure that its response is informed by the perspectives of survivors who have lived experience of its current responses; further, it must be able to influence national police guidance and training and to scrutinise them to more clearly understand the underlying motivations of perpetrators.

'However, protecting acid victims and working to prevent this form of gender-based violence is not merely an issue of legal, police policies and practice; acid attacks can only be eradicated by social change.'

Oh, Prof, 'gender based violence' went out the window. It's no longer the scorned man (if it ever was, as the Samizdata link above shows) or jealous woman, it's a bit more widespread now.