http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/archives/2006/07/drink_sodden_ar.shtml 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.)... en-gb Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:44:01 +0000 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:33:20 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 jkg@jimbo.org.uk 180