Our intrepid reporter rang the Scouts this morning to ask about reports in The Guardian, The Times, the Daily Mail and others, all fulminating about the fact that "penknives are going to be restricted on Scouting trips as a seemingly innocent tradition succumbs to concerns over the nation's blade culture".
We were told that the Today programme and ourselves were the only media outlets who
had been bothered to ring up to find out if the story was true before
repeating it.
It seems some hack somewhere read an article in the April - April! - edition of Scouting magazine, (the article is on page 50) repeating advice that the association has been giving since the last time the law changed on carrying knives and decided this was hot off the press stuff. For a feature, rounding up the attitudes of different organisations to carrying knives, perhaps. For a news story? I don't think so.
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