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Britain Adds Another City's Worth of People While Its Infrastructure Crumbles

• via The Independent

Britain Adds Another City's Worth of People While Its Infrastructure Crumbles

The Second-Largest Population Surge in 75 Years Exposes a State That Can't Plan, Can't Build, and Can't Tell the Truth

The UK population grew by 755,254 in the year to June 2024, driven almost entirely by migration. This surge, the second-largest since World War Two, strains already collapsing public services and infrastructure. Amidst political theatre about digital ID cards, the real issue is a state incapable of planning or building for its population.

The Casey Report: When Institutions Prefer Ignorance to Accountability

• via The Spectator

The Casey Report: When Institutions Prefer Ignorance to Accountability

How Grooming Gangs Expose Britain's Institutional Decay

Louise Casey's grooming gangs report has revealed a truth more damaging than the crimes it investigates: Britain's institutions have systematically avoided collecting the data necessary to understand and address widespread child sexual exploitation. Two-thirds of police forces have failed to record the ethnicity of perpetrators, creating what Casey diplomatically terms a "culture of ignorance."