That headline is from the BBC website. Like the BBC, when I am stumped for things to write about, I can always count on the Strathclyde region of western Scotland for murders and other atrocities to keep me busy. Like the BBC, I would be sunk without the barbarism of the Glasgow area.

Knife crime in the west of Scotland should be treated as a public health issue like heart disease or cancer, according to a leading doctor.

Last year there were more than 9,000 violent incidents in the Strathclyde area.

While I agree that knife crime in Scotland is serious, I don't agree that it's a health problem. More like a death problem.

"If people realised that your chances of being murdered in Glasgow were twice as high as they are in London then people would hopefully begin to talk about it.

"We hope that the Greater Glasgow NHS, the health board, might consider taking up the issue of violence as a specific targeted area for public health efforts."

I was scared witless living in Glasgow, but I really wouldn't have wanted my (all-too-high) tax pounds, meant to pay for healthcare (such as it was), going to pay for street crime. I paid council tax to staff our police force. I paid National Insurance to fund healthcare. This is just another way for the shifty Scottish government to move money from one fund to another.

UK healthcare is already strapped for cash, and should not be responsible for fighting crime. That's the job of the police, not the doctors. It's one thing to have the NHS pay for Stop-Smoking campaigns, but to have to fund the fight against knife crime is ridiculous.