1 hour ago Met boss hits out at Trump’s claims about London crime as homicide rates fall

New figures showed that there were 97 homicides in the capital in 2025 - the lowest number recorded since 2014

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2 h. ago London murder rate falls to lowest in over a decade as Met Police chief hits out at 'disinformation'

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said facts ‘speak for themselves’ with homicides dropping 36 per cent in just six years

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3 h. ago Sorry, Trump and Farage – London is no lawless ‘warzone’. Violent crime is lower than ever | Sadiq Khan

Reform’s new candidate for mayor claims people pity Londoners for living in an unsafe capital. But the evidence is clear: we’re making our streets saferLast year, something extraordinary happened in London. As the conversation about crime got even louder, London quietly reached the lowest per capita homicide rate in its recorded history. Even London’s harshest critics have to accept this is impressive progress.For too many, it will no doubt come as a surprise. In recent years, politicians and commentators have sought to spam our social media feeds with an endless stream of distortions and untruths – painting a dystopian picture of a lawless place where criminals run rampant.Sadiq Khan is the mayor of London Continue reading...

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9 h. ago London murder rate falls to lowest per capita since records began, as Met Police chief insists city is ‘safer’

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said facts ‘speak for themselves’ with homicides dropping 36 per cent in just six years

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46 h. ago Weird Reform UK rally featured busts of Trump as Farage fans try to defend historic racism

Reform merch was being flogged - from £15 leather wallets to £40 Reform FC shirts - while local London Reform groups had set up stalls, with one showing off a Mr Farage cardboard cut-out and a Donald Trump bust

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4 d. ago US seizes two tankers as Trump widens oil grab and says Venezuela will buy American goods with proceeds from oil sale – live

US takes over two tankers, one Russian-flagged in the North Atlantic and the other Venezuela-linked in the Caribbean; Trump says Caracas will be ‘purchasing only American Made Products’Explainer: why so much interest in a rusty tanker in the Atlantic?Meanwhile, in the UK, Nigel Farage has offered his take on Trump’s plans to control Greenland, saying it would be “outrageous” for the US to seize it from Denmark.Farage says he agrees with Starmer that the fate of Greenland must be decided by Greenland and Denmark, not the US – but sided with Trump on “some genuine security concerns” that require further presence there.“What I will say is this. There are some genuine security concerns around Greenland and that becomes ever more relevant with a retraction of the ice caps as we head towards the North Pole. There is a strong feeling in British intelligence circles, and many in Nato, that there needs to be a significant Nato base located directly on the north of Greenland.At the moment, it...

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4 d. ago ‘No state has the right to use force against ships,’ says Moscow after US seizes Russian

Marinera, also known as the Bella 1, has been taken over in North Atlantic with second Venezuela-linked vessel seized in CaribbeanPeople in Greenland, share your views on Donald Trump’s commentsMeanwhile, in the UK, Nigel Farage has offered his take on Trump’s plans to control Greenland, saying it would be “outrageous” for the US to seize it from Denmark.Farage says he agrees with Starmer that the fate of Greenland must be decided by Greenland and Denmark, not the US – but sided with Trump on “some genuine security concerns” that require further presence there.“What I will say is this. There are some genuine security concerns around Greenland and that becomes ever more relevant with a retraction of the ice caps as we head towards the North Pole. There is a strong feeling in British intelligence circles, and many in Nato, that there needs to be a significant Nato base located directly on the north of Greenland.At the moment, it would appear that is something Greenland is not particul...

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8 d. ago Nigel Farage excuses Donald Trump breaking international law and claims it may be 'good thing'

The US president said that Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, along with his wife Cilia Flores, had been captured and flown out of the country after months of pressure from Washington

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8 d. ago Nigel Farage says 'unorthodox' US capture of Maduro could 'make China and Russia think twice'

He posted on X: 'The American actions in Venezuela overnight are unorthodox and contrary to international law - but if they make China and Russia think twice, it may be a good thing.'

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1 week ago We live next to lawless London food court infesting our homes with super

We live next to lawless London food court infesting our homes with super-rats & relentless music - it’s ruined our lives  The Sun

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2 w. ago Nigel Farage targets Reform's first council victories in London as springboard for ousting Sadiq Khan over his 'terrible' record on crime

The Reform leader has made London a key target in his plans to trigger another political ' earthquake' at the local elections in May.

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2 w. ago Just SEVEN of the 32,788 burglaries reported in lawless London last year resulted in a suspect charged

Statistics show the Metropolitan Police constabulary accounts for a significantly higher level of theft in the UK - coming in at two thirds of all cases in 2024.

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3 w. ago Prosecutions for Tube fare evasion jump to highest level in six years

Transport for London has issued 13,118 penalty fare notices to fare-dodgers on the Tube

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4 w. ago Will Farage's Trumpian strategy work against him? He has good reason to believe it won't | Samuel Earle

The Reform leader bit back over allegations of racial abuse and revealed his strategy: the best form of defence is dragging everyone else into the mireAs the allegations of Nigel Farage’s racist and antisemitic school bullying multiplied, it was hard to keep up with his shifting array of responses. At times, in his evasiveness and discomfort, he has looked like that most un-Farage of things: a nervous politician, anxious not to say the wrong word.Last week, however, he angrily returned to his preferred posture: brimming with indignation at the moral hypocrisy of elites. He lashed out at the BBC’s “double standards” for indulging the allegations, when the broadcaster itself showed racist jokes and skits back in those days. Farage announced it was not he who should apologise, but apparently the BBC that should say sorry “for virtually everything you did throughout the 1970s and 1980s”. Continue reading...

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