July 21, 2006
Drink-sodden Armageddon, update
Around 10 months ago, a number of people were predicting that the UK was about to descend into some kind of drink-sodden Armageddon. I mocked their use of this phrase at the time, thinking it unlikely. So imagine my glee when, in yesterday's newspaper, I found this:
- 24-hour pub laws fail to incite crime -- Independent, 20th July
The 24 hour drinking laws have not led to any more violence or vandalism after pub closing time, new figures show. [...] Their [the Home Office] report, Crime In England and Wales 2005-6, concluded: "The data show no indication of a rise in the overall level of offences as a result in the change in the opening hours."
Stick that up your Daily Mail and smoke it.
(Speaking of the Independent, their front-page infographic today is great.)
Posted by James at 17:44
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