Police in the English county of Leicestershire have been investigating burglaries only at even-numbered homes. The scheme is said to have reduced workload with no effect on convictions, or public satisfaction. Five more counties are eyeing a similar cost-saving measure. (Source: The Daily Telegraph). I suspect that that the burglary clear-up rate is small …
£2.8 bn is the cost to the British National Health Service of treating everyone who is not a British national: students, workers on visas, tourists, immigrants, expats popping back to see their old GP and yes “health tourists”. One figure puts deliberate abuse of the NHS by the un-entitled at £200m a year, which is …
“After WWII, Europe’s devastated nations had lost all interest in military glory: to protect themselves from a return to “conflict and destruction”, they sought to dethrone the old obsession with national sovereignty, by focusing instead on mutual cooperation. But today the ideal of closer integration is fading. “There are worrying signs that even the most …
For 250 years at least Britain was the go-to country for refugees from political and religious persecution. Indeed, that is how my own forebears reached London, fleeing the regime of King Louis XIV. Now the country is becoming less generous and more little Englandish. Here is what ought to be done to help the armies …
Depending on who’s counting, there are 1.85 million CCTV cameras in Britain, or 4.2 million, or 5.9 million. This means the average person is filmed somewhere between 70 and 300 times each day, depending where you are. The uproar where I live in the United States when they wanted to put in traffic cameras to catch …
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