tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903281042242791813.post3148577956891681579..comments2024-03-26T15:02:07.811-04:00Comments on Socialist Standard Past & Present: This Year's Moral PanicImposs1904http://www.blogger.com/profile/04043116442576404667noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903281042242791813.post-69192541832799932762008-07-06T19:01:00.000-04:002008-07-06T19:01:00.000-04:00Obviously because of sensationalist novels like 'N...Obviously because of sensationalist novels like 'No Mean City', most people know of the gang culture in Glasgow in the thirties, but there was definitely also a knife and razor gang culture in Glasgow in the 60s. (This old <A HREF="http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/special-reports/crimes-that-rocked-scotland/2007/10/19/a-madman-on-the-rampage-86908-19978345/" REL="nofollow">Daily Record article</A> makes reference to it.)<BR/><BR/>And for certain people of my parents generation, in their late teens and early twenties in Glasgow during the late sixties, Frankie Vaughan is better known for his intervention on gang knife violence than he is for his crooning. ;-)Imposs1904https://www.blogger.com/profile/04043116442576404667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903281042242791813.post-82650399053973829912008-07-06T18:38:00.000-04:002008-07-06T18:38:00.000-04:00"In the 60s it was Glasgow’s razor gangs that made..."In the 60s it was Glasgow’s razor gangs that made the headlines."<BR/><BR/>In the 60s ? 20s and 30s, surely ?Labanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.com