Record low murder rate in England and Wales

Both UK and Singapore are alleged to be imposing 10% tariffs on US (left had col). Unusually, the rate US will charge is not half that but is 10%.

Says US tariffs are set at half the tariffs (including non-tariff trade barriers) that those countries impose on US.

Pretty poor stats from UK Home Office yesterday.
Firstly, misleading to say 19k people were removed. Most "returns" (this stat) are people who left voluntarily, most often those who left of their own accord and whose departure the Home Office only discovered later when (e.g.) checking visa data.

school absence fines (mainly for unauthorised holidays) up by a quarter to record levels.

explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...

Another record low in planning applications submitted and decided in England.

www.gov.uk/government/s...

Harder to see a 'crash' in the sense of an immediate recession or a spike in unemployment.

Easy enough to see a sharp, temporary spike in mortgage rates in the months just after. That would have affected hundreds of thousands of people looking for mortgages (out of millions with mortgages).

Here's what happened to the price of government borrowing in the week of the mini-Budget. The BoE announcement had an effect. So did the mini-Budget. So did Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng saying there was "more to come" that weekend.

Some local councils in England will need to *quintuple* new housing delivery to meet government targets.

Analysis - plus postcode lookup for your council at www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

2.3m victims of domestic abuse, 39k convictions.

Most of the fall-off is between incident and reporting and between reporting and referral to CPS (and of that, more than half of the fall-off involves victims not supporting action).

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...