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)

Perhaps. IIRC as part of the shake of the UK financial system that gave interest rate setting powers to the BoE Brown made the (in retrospect) fatal error of taking away oversight of UK banking from … (View Post)

There are quite a few UK policies that were introduced by one party but turbo-charged into awfulness by the other. (View Post)