I haven't written anything about the killing of Nilanthan

Murrdi as it's not a subject I can add a great deal to.

We're giving extensive coverage to knife crime again this

week as you might expect, but we've tried to present it in

a way that takes the issue forward rather than looks back on

another waste of a young life.

I would like to say, though, that Nilanthaan's sister

Santhiya has shown remarkable bravery in facing the press - and

contributing to the knife crime debate - so soon after her

brother's death, and she has my full admiration.

On an entirely separate note, I'm beginning to think this

blog is more trouble than it's worth.

One particular entry was picked up on the Media Guardian

website and presented in a manner that make the Advertiser seem

more like the set of a Carry On movie than the finely-tuned

multimedia machine that it is.

It would be the height of hypocrisy to write something in

public and then complain when people read it, so I think I'm

just going to take a vow of silence for a while instead.