This is top tier “I’m 13 and this is deep” material. (View Post)

Letby was asked a loaded question on the stand by the prosecution. A question she was completely unqualified to answer, but felt she had to answer anyway. Arguably the entire case turned on this mome… (View Post)

Good article in the FT on the crime statistics: https://www.ft.com/content/7488fe4c-5e1d-4b2b-adab-f42ad5273fc9 Short version: crime in general genuinely appears to be down, but the crimes visible to… (View Post)

There’s something about NextDoor that turns people into paranoid curtain twitchers convinced that the new postie is casing their house for future burglary. Two things can be true simultaneously: 1) C… (View Post)

There’s also the inevitable reality that servicing suburbia (sewers, gas, electricity, road maintenance etc etc) is more expensive per capita than servicing denser housing. (View Post)