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1) "Police recorded crime does not tend to be a good indicator of general trends in crime". https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2025 2) There has been a significant increase in some types of crime in London over the last year - particularly theft, which went up 28%. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/london-latest-crime-statistics-knife-murder-shoplifting-sadiq-khan-ons-b1239843.html 3) All of this is a world away from Rockets's "absolute" belief that LTNs cause crime. It's nonsense. It's an invention. It's toss. There's no proof of that at all - even he admits it.

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Call me a philistine but I like the small Laughing Cow triangles. Babybels too. They're a great snack for adults and kids. Yes, I'll never be shy about praising the Little Baby Cheeses.

That. Is. A. Disgrace. The business in question came after the junction closure, and used the cleared space for serving food and drink.

"Fusion is food. Fusion is art. Fusion is fashion. Fusion is Ollie's House". https://ollies-house.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Oliies-House-WEB-280-1.jpg

Heritage Cheese only opened in Dulwich Village after the bottom of Calton Ave had been closed. Apparently we are abadoning not just causation but also correlation now. https://www.thedulwichestate.org.uk/whats-happening/heritage-cheese Presumably Rockets will be along soon to claim that LTNs cause dairy boutiques...

OK - now we are clear on your absolutely held beliefs. Please prove that the Dulwich LTNs have increased crime.

Do you believe "LTNs increase crime" - yes or no? If yes, prove it. If no, stop wibbling on.

It's like a little slice of Gotham City down there, honestly, pal. I was robbed twice at knifepoint and once at gunpoint, three happy slappers happy slapped me, and at one stage there were four street urchins trying to steal my pocket watch. And all because of the LTN!

You should try.

My husband just left me. I blame the junction outside the hairdressers that was closed 5 years ago. Before the closure, I was happily married. Now I'm on a blue tarmacked cycle path to Splitsville. Damn you, LTNs!

Some would say incredible. But then again, it's a bit like Mr Blobby caused global warming. Before Noel Edmonds's second most evil creation appeared on TV, global warming wasn't a problem and no-one ever mentioned it. Now...it's an existential threat to the world. Makes you think.

It's quite a steep step from memory. The ramp would have to be quite a few feet long to make the angle shallow enough to be safe. Maybe I'm wrong - not an expert.

You become a chain when you get 4 outlets. Not 3, not 5, exactly 4.

Crikey. You're right.

Supermarkets have massive volume and tiny profit margins. If this were true Ocado would be dead by the end of the week, surely.

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That's actually why the Sherlock Holmes stories were so popular. There was so little crime people found it exciting to imagine robberies and murders happening in London.

It's not fair to hold Corbyn's brother's views against him when he has never explicitly or implicitly endorsed them. And he has enough of his own terrible positions to criticise anyway.

For every person like OP that moans their doorbell was rung and there was a knock on the door, there's someone else moaning that they didn't hear the delivery drivers. If you've ever done delivery work you'll know that loads of people's bells don't work. The delivery drivers probably goes to a hundred doors a day: press bell, knock door, drop package, move on. If you don't like delivery drivers, insist on delivery by Royal Mail where the workers have wages and a union - or just stop ordering shit online that's artificially cheap. But most of us (me included) don't want that

Everyone gets the point that Corbynites try to make with the "total number of votes cast" statistic, it's just a specious one. In 2017, Corbyn's Labour got fewer votes than May's Tories (both the percentage of votes and aggregate number of votes). In 2019, Corbyn's Labour fewer votes than Johnson's Tories (both the percentage of votes and aggregate number of votes); and he managed to drop 2.7 million votes or 6.9% of vote share between the two elections. I repeat, he got trounced by Boris F***ing Johnson and the Tories after the Brexit omnishambles. It is not true that a "fairer" electoral system would have seen Labour beat the Tories: Labour simply got fewer votes than the Tories. Corbyn lost twice. There is no metric by which he won the general election. His failure to win was a disaster for the UK, and let Johnson and Truss and Sunak into office. Corbynites have to let go of this delusion that Corbyn but really won somehow if you squint in a certain way. It is completely irrelevant that Labour under Corbyn got more votes than Labour under Starmer. It is like saying Hull City was more successful in its 2014 FA Cup Final than Chelsea was in its 2018 FA Cup Final, because Hull scored 2 goals when Chelsea only scored 1. But guess what - Chelsea won its game and Hull City lost. Corbyn's fans turned out to vote for him - but an even larger group of people who found him repellant were motivated enough to show up and vote Tory.

OP, you've got to relax a bit. Multidrop delivery is a total nightmare and the delivery drivers are woefully underpaid. We as a society all want to order stuff online and for it to be delivered quickly and cheaply. The square gets circled by allowing companies like Evri to have sham contracting arrangements. None of this is your fault OP but the delivery person is just trying to get through their workload as quickly as possible. Delivery is not, historically, an industry with large profit margins. “The only way it can be profitable is if you underpay the person who is the courier, by not treating them as an employee, by not paying taxes, by not paying their insurance, by refusing to give them sick pay or cover them if they have an accident or train them,” says Prof Annabelle Gawer, the director of the Centre of Digital Economy at the University of Surrey. “That is where the ‘savings’ are coming from.” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/01/the-hidden-life-of-a-courier-13-hour-days-rude-customers-and-big-dreams

There wasn't any chaos at the council: bins were collected, social workers supported people, elder care was paid for and all the rest. There was a few days of furious bickering among local politicians on one side of the chamber. Nothing new there...

Too many American YouTube videos. The problem isn't the lack of an offence, it's the lack of police resources to respond to it.

A far left coup? This bunch can't even decide if the People's Front of Judea is actually going to be a political party, let alone who's going to lead it. I don’t think you need to worry about Corbyn and Co seizing Woolwich barracks to recreate Kronstadt any time soon.