3 articles
• via The Standard
London's shoplifting costs retailers £16.7m monthly amid 12% rise and police blaming victims. Crackdowns yield arrests but fail to stem fastest-growing crime, dooming high streets.
• via The Guardian
A Guardian defence of London cherry-picks data to dismiss crime concerns, ignoring absolute risks, resource cuts, and repeated policy shortfalls that signal broader urban institutional decay.
• via GB News
A rejected Egyptian asylum seeker's alleged rape near Charing Cross exposes failures in border control, with 45,000 annual boat arrivals overwhelming enforcement and endangering public safety.