We are in a drill music recording studio in Birmingham. We have come here to talk frankly about why teenagers carry knives. This is a city with a history of gang violence going back decades.

In the last year, M1 and his creative cohort, MK The Plug, have been busy rewiring the aesthetic character of UK drill with their piercing, melancholic production. The genre has now evolved from ...

Data reveals a shocking increase in the number of teenagers killed with a knife or sharp instrument in England and Wales – ...