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You must have heard this week’s horrifying new stats by now. Knife attacks in London have risen by 86 per cent in a decade. As a former Detective Chief Inspector at The Met, I am well placed to help explain how we’ve witnessed such a catastrophic increase.

The message from the Met’s planned closure of half its police stations is clear: do not try and see the police in the one place where you might think they’d be available, in an actual police station. Just call them instead. And if you are rash enough to be mugged…

The crime statistics are piling up, and all of them are scary. Knife crime in London, according to this paper’s correspondent, Ross Lydall, is up nearly ten per cent since last year: London now accounts for roughly one in three knife attacks in England and Wales.

The West End is the capital’s knife crime hotspot, accounting for one in every 15 knife attacks in London, report says

Warning of knife crime ‘epidemic’ as offences soar 60% in last three years- as tributes paid to father and son killed in ‘targeted’ attack

COMMENT: The former health secretary Sajid Javid says we should charge £20 for GP appointments and replace the health service with a Dutch-style social insurance system – just as Wes Streeting warns the doctors that they are paving the way for Nigel Farage to do just that, writes John Rentoul

The graduate visa route should be scrapped for all students other than those on postgraduate research degrees, think tank says.

With phones in schools under the spotlight following the Netflix drama Adolescence and an exchange at PMQs, Full Fact looks at what the data tells us.

Ex-chancellor criticises ‘hyperbolic’ projections as report which claims economic impact of leaving the European Union less than previously thought

The former chancellor said he believed ‘many claims about the impact of Brexit upon the UK’s economy were exaggerated’.

Policy Exchange report blames austerity for breakdown in policing and criminal justice