51 h. ago London’s lawless Underground is emblematic of Broken Britain

London’s lawless Underground is emblematic of Broken Britain  The Telegraph

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4 d. ago How crime levels in ‘lawless’ London rank compared to other world cities

Data compiled from global survey responses for the Numbeo Crime Index ranks 385 of the world’s biggest cities

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5 d. ago The chances of being a victim of crime in London compared to the rest of the world: Map reveals where 'lawless' capital ranks among the most dangerous cities

London can today be revealed as the 15th worst city for crime in Europe as concerns continue to mount over a growing epidemic of violence, theft and robbery in the capital.

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7 d. ago If Britain is broken, what is to blame – big money and big tech, or graffiti on your train? | Tom Whyman

A new cadre of agit-prop campaigners has been cleaning the London underground, but there is more to the political stunt than meets the eyeBritain, let’s face it, is crap. Crap, I mean, in quite a specific sense: we might not be teetering on the brink of civilisational destruction, as the post-Brexit right can often seem to think. But there nonetheless remains a vast, ambient sense of rubbishness. Everything is expensive but nothing works. Our streets are full of potholes; our houses are full of mould. All the shops are shut, except for a Tesco Express, where there are security tags on the eggs. It takes about a million years to build a railway line.Up to now, the response to Britain’s enshittification has, by and large, seemed remarkably fatalistic: Keir Starmer spent the first year in government repeatedly insisting that there just wasn’t any money, and so really nothing could be done. Thank God then, one might think, for Looking for Growth, a new campaign group led by young (well,...

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1 week ago Moment man 'goes on rampage' at Tube station in lawless London

Moment man 'goes on rampage' at Tube station in lawless London  Daily Express

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1 week ago TV star Selina Scott brutally attacked and robbed by gang of eight in lawless London as she slams police...

TV star Selina Scott brutally attacked and robbed by gang of eight in lawless London as she slams police...  The Sun

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2 w. ago ‘You’d never make Slumdog today’: Danny Boyle on risks, regrets and returning to the undead

In 28 Years Later, zombies maraud over a Britain broken by more than Brexit. Its director discusses cultural baggage, catastrophising – and why his kids’ generation is an ‘upgrade’The UK is a wasteland in Danny Boyle’s new film. Towns lie in ruins, trains rot on the rails and the EU has severed all ties with the place. Some residents are stuck in the past and congregate under the tattered flag of St George. The others flail shirtless through the open countryside, raging about nothing, occasionally stopping to eat worms. You wouldn’t want to live in the land that Boyle and the writer Alex Garland show us. Teasingly, on some level, the film suggests that we do.Boyle and Garland first prowled zombie Britain with their 2002 hit 28 Days Later. It was an electrifying piece of speculative fiction, a guerilla-style thriller about an unimaginable world. Since then we’ve had Brexit and Covid, and the looming threat of martial law in the US The story’s extravagant flights of fancy don’t feel s...

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4 w. ago 'Look at what they've done': Bollywood star's anguish after brazen thieves smash into her Jaguar to steal her Louis Vuitton bags in lawless London

Heartbroken Sunanda Sharma, 33, said she has lost 'everything' after thieves broke into her 2016 Jaguar F-Pace to steal her swanky pair of Louis Vuitton bags during the raid in London.

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4 w. ago ‘How much can one person take?’: Posy Sterling on her intense portrayal of a mum trapped in custody hell

Working with a theatre company for women affected by criminal justice has given the actor a passion for stories that fall between society’s cracks. Now she is swapping Broadway for a powerful account of Britain’s broken prison systemEach morning before filming Lollipop, Posy Sterling took a giant bucket outside, filled it with ice and climbed in. Never mind that it was November or that her call time was at 5am; the actor would take daily dips in the freezing water in the dark. In Lollipop, Sterling plays a headstrong mother who has recently been released from prison and is fighting to win back her kids. The role is heavy, but the ice baths meant she started the days feeling light. “I just found it euphoric,” she says. Tickled, her driver started bringing her more ice as part of her ritual.Today, Sterling, 32, is similarly full of beans, buzzing from two coffees and fresh from six weeks in New York. “I haven’t slept,” she says brightly. The actor has been quietly building her profile...

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4 w. ago Oxford Street is being overrun by shoplifters and phone snatchers as underfunded police struggle to cope in lawless London, retailers warn

The West End shopping destination has struggled in recent years as big names have moved out and it has become known for phone snatching, anti-social behaviour and theft.

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