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153,966 home burglaries were recorded last year. One in twenty ended in a charge; seven in ten were closed with no suspect, half within the month. London is last of 43 forces at 2.5%. We read every outcome, every London crime, the closure rules and a promise to attend that nobody has measured.
· 14 min read · 44 sources
The pub-table version says the Mayor is strangling London's nightlife with dancing licences and six-month shutdowns. Almost none of it is true. What is true: a fifth of the capital's late-night venues have gone since 2020, 33 councils write the rules, and other British cities are losing far less.
· 23 min read · 30 sources
The cap for a typical home rises 4% to £1,723 a year on Thursday. Gas is up 8%, electricity is flat thanks to a VAT cut, and the cheap fixes have gone. What the numbers mean, who they cover, what help exists, and why the forecasts for January now say another 20% or more.
· 11 min read · 25 sources
After the death outside Highgate School, we asked whether fee-paying schools get the same protection as state ones. Haringey's record was fair. Barnet's and Wandsworth's are not: neither has a single private school among its School Streets. It comes down to who gets to choose.
· 7 min read · 20 sources
The suspicion after a death outside a fee-paying school is that councils look after state pupils first. Haringey's record says otherwise. The real gap is that the one protection councils have rolled out at scale cannot be used on the main roads where children are most at risk.
· 6 min read · 13 sources
Government borrowing is running £8.1bn above the official forecast five months into the year. Here is where that gap comes from, why it shrinks the Chancellor's room for manoeuvre on 28 October, and what the words "headroom" and "fiscal rules" mean when you strip out the jargon.
· 7 min read · 9 sources
