1. The FT. Britain is not broken, it has been getting better. It does make you wonder about their Conservative endorsement, huh? FT research shows that even the most deprived local authorities have shown signs of improvement over recent years when looking at figures ranging from crime and truancy to teenage pregnancies and children living [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Broken Britain’
30 Apr
Two contrasting endorsements
You’ll know this – the Economist has backed David Cameron, though in a surprisingly reticent way: I can’t remember their New Labour endorsements being so coy as to leave a picture of an invisible man on the front cover. For the first time I can recall, the Economist is forced to explain why they are [...]
10 Mar
Me, elsewhere, ducking below the parapet
In the Guardian – I think only online – is an adaptation of that blog post about falling murder rates in LA. As a self-confessed amateur of this topic, I have taken the opportunity of buying Chris Williams’ book on History and Crime. I have seen an earlier chapter on the difficulty of extrapolating from [...]
4 Mar
Los Angeles murder rate in vertiginous decline
… to only about 3 times’ the UK’s. Though that is not the angle taken in this excellent story (hattip Marginal Revolution) which marvels at it falling near to the level of some extraordinary city in Nebraska , Omaha. Los Angeles, a city of some 4 million inhabitants, is enjoying a blindingly good few years [...]
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