Conservative leader David Cameron has jumped on yet another bandwagon: this time reigniting the age-old debate about hip hop by accusing BBC Radio 1 of encouraging knife and gun crime.
According to Mr Cameron - a self-confessed fan of The Smiths, Bob Dylan and Blur - Radio 1's Saturday night programming is contributing to the growing problem of knife and gun crime in the UK.
He didn't name-check Tim Westwood's hip-hop programme, but it's the only Radio 1 Saturday night show he could be referring to.
And what Mr Cameron knows about the genre could probably be written on the back of a postage stamp, but lack of knowledge has never gotten in the way of a politician and a bandwagon.
In the aftermath of a series of stabbings and shootings in the UK knife and gun crime are hot topics for debate in middle England and the BBC, the youth of today and hip hop - from predominantly black artists - are easy targets.
Mr Cameron has already joined the BBC-bashing fraternity, saying the corporation's expansionist policies needed to be checked to "make sure that the BBC doesn't over-extend itself."
Now hip hop - and Radio 1's promotion of it - has joined the ever-growing list of things that get up his nose - and, he hopes, that of middle England.
Would he prefer censorship? A ban? Laws against hip hop? Well, not according to his speech last night when he spent the evening telling the British Society of Magazine Editors that Labour created laws and regulation because it did not trust the public enough to make their own decisions. Whereas a Cameron government, he said, would prefer "sensible debate" and self-regulation to nanny state-style laws and bans.
So would he ban Westwood's show, then? Censor Radio 1's output? Or would he trust Radio 1 listeners enough to let them make up their own minds? He can't have it both ways.
