The number of murders recorded in London dropped to its lowest level per capita since records began. There were 97 homicides in the capital in 2025, down 36 per cent from 153 in 2019. 2025 saw a homicide rate of 1.1 per 100,000 people - safer than comparable global cities such as New York at 2.8, Paris (1.6), Toronto (1.6), Berlin (3.2), Los Angeles (5.6), Chicago (11.7), and Philadelphia (12.3).
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📅 20 Dec
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Nathan Gill arrives in court for his sentencing for accepting Russian Bribes.
Nigel Farage is normally wheeled out onto EVERY news channel if an asylum seeker so much as farts..is he being interviewed by sky, bbc lbc as we speak?
Nicolas Cage says "protect yourselves from AI."
“There is another world that is also disturbing me, and it’s happening right now around all of us — the new AI world. I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us. Robots cannot reflect the human condition for us. That is a dead end if an actor lets one AI robot manipulate his or her performance even a little bit, an inch will eventually become a mile and all integrity, purity and truth of art will be replaced by financial interests only. We can’t let that happen. The job of all art in my view, film performance included, is to hold a mirror to the external and internal stories of the human condition through the very human thoughtful and emotional process of recreation. A robot can’t do that. If we let robots do that, it will lack all heart and eventually lose edge and turn to mush. There will be no human response to life as we know it. It will be life as robots tell us to know it. I say, protect yourselves from AI interfering with your authentic and honest expressions.”
@relizarov Had a case where [tool] confidently told me the detailed, exact opposite of the real docs. Very convincing yet utterly wrong. More than zero time reading other non-AI references, surely still including docs, seems advisable. Would all flaws really be detected via automation?
The British Council Building in Kyiv has been destroyed by a russian missile. It’s regularly full of British government officials
russia is at war with the entire west.
If you live in the UK and think Putin wants peace then it’s time to grow up
"We've got to the state where a man is arrested for carrying a joke."
Private Eye editor Ian Hislop on the arrest of a man under the Terrorism Act for holding up a cartoon from the magazine during a protest against the ban of the group Palestine Action at the weekend.
#BBCPM
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