So rap music is responsible for gun violence in the UK? If that’s true, what about all sorts of other music and pop influences? “What is concerning is that, in focusing on hip-hop and gun crime, our great and good are overlooking myriad other horrors caused by pop music. Gun culture is only the tip of a vast iceberg of malaises for which pop is responsible – an iceberg upon which the ship of state might very well founder beyond salvage.”