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In a sense, it does, because it conflates different types of crimes rather than providing a clear apples-apples comparison; if you restrict to stranger/public assault, the multiple is potentially at least 6.5x more extreme than the numbers shown here.
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Reminder that this still contains a massive statistical problem by grouping known-offender with stranger-assault.
Only 8% of offences are 'in public', and only 15% (against women) by a stranger, but these will form the vast majority among Afghan, MENA, and SSA offences, meaning the true relative multiple is many times higher than these stats suggest.
Put another way, the British population stats capture a huge number of offences by people known to the victim - which is unlikely for the above groups where reporting by victims within family circles is even more discouraged by cultural norms and language barriers, and many will be single males without 'known' female circles.
So the apples to apples comparison would suggest rates are something on the order of 6.5x worse than appears on these charts, even factoring the adjustment for age and gender.
Reminder that this still contains a massive statistical problem by grouping known-offender with stranger-assault.
Only 8% of offences are 'in public', and only 15% (against women) by a stranger, but these will form the vast majority among Afghan, MENA, and SSA offences, meaning the true relative multiple is many times higher than these stats suggest.
Put another way, the British population stats capture a huge number of offences by people known to the victim - which is unlikely for the above groups where reporting by victims within family circles is even more discouraged by cultural norms and language barriers, and many will be single males without 'known' female circles.
So the apples to apples comparison would suggest rates are something on the order of 6.5x worse than appears on these charts, even factoring the adjustment for age and gender.
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Tocqueville’s paradox: it is in the most equal societies that people find inequalities most intolerable.
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Top 10 Irishmen of All Time:
1. William of Orange
2. Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington
3. Arthur Guinness
4. Stephen Maturin
5. Claude Auchinleck
6. Phil Sheridan
7. Patrick Harper
8. Ian Paisley
9. Pat Cleburne
10. Margaret Thatcher
HRH the Prince of Wales needs a new tailor, his jacket is far too long and it makes him look oddly out of proportion. The jacket front ought to line up roughly with the bottom of the ribcage.
The glittering royal history of the Princess of Wales' chandelier earrings at the Oman state banquet
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His is just awfully cut. The jacket ought to cut off at about the bottom of the ribcage with high trousers. The low cut makes everyone look short and ill-proportioned.
Very strong list, though I'd be tempted to give number one place to God the Father Almighty, creator of England, Heaven, and (latterly) Earth, and by whose Grace the English were brought to the promised land and given dominion of the Earth.
Britain's foreign aid budget should prioritise Commonwealth Realms, but exclude *former* realms entirely.
It would doubtless only cause offence to hand millions of these bits of paper, or their digital equivalents, to a country which had purposefully rejected HM.
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We are a rational actor on an irrational continent.
Germany and France offer to build submarines for Argentina as threat to the Falkland Islands rises trib.al/hGTzrVS
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Concerning...
"Industry insiders have told @NavyLookout that two more of the five remaining Type 23s will almost certainly have to be declared unseaworthy in the next few months [while delivery of the new Type 26 & Type 31 frigates seemingly continues to slip]."
Latest news commentary:
Royal Navy frigate crisis is even worse than Commons Defence Committee report suggests
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True in Spain too. Every landlord in Madrid and Barcelona screens the renters now. This is an obvious consequence of rent control. The most vulnerable, ostensible protected by the legislation, are in fact excluded from the rental market: if you cannot be evicted for non payment, then you are too risky a renter.
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i think there’s this feeling that we can afford to be picky with infrastructure because the uk is a rich country, and i worry that feeling isn’t going to go away until its way too obvious we’re not that rich anymore
Wales plans to ban steel pylons as government launches consultation bbc.in/4z7nnMx
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Quite proud of my country that after decades of the chicken tikka masala libel only 3% have bought it.
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I’d love to be appointed head of the charity commission, maybe the single highest leverage appointment possible. The sector is completely out of control & the source of so much rot and suffering. It should be a top 3 priority
Reciting the Lord's Prayer above a whisper in one of the world's greatest churches is now, under Turkish law, an incitement to public hatred and hostility.
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Britain's establishment has isolated our country diplomatically. As I said over a year ago, we risk losing the Falklands over the negotiating table as everybody else falls behind Argentina -- including Europe, where Spain would see it as a prelude to the annexation of Gib.
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