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Stroud Green is now a relatively safe place to live. Further to Ali's link, crime data is also available at [ward-by-ward level](http://www.met.police.uk/crimefigures/index.php?borough=yr&period=year). It turns out that Stroud Green ward is much…
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Emma, the issue both here and with gangs is a lack of evidence supplied by those who assert terrible problems to back up the existence and frequency of those problems. Anecdotes, hearsay and assumptions are not sufficient. To the contrary, what we…
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Siolae. What you describe is shocking. If that is what goes on in Stroud Green now, can you provide evidence for that? How many girls are bound to gangs against their will right here? (As opposed to Hackney, Lambeth etc.) This would be from a total …
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Andy, the FT Westminster blog had a pretty well-informed comment, which I have taken the liberty of pasting below. The cap will affect a surprisingly high number of households. The key is to combine three or more children with reasonably high housin…
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I remember reading that the triangular site is made up of dozens of separate plots, some of which are even of unknown ownership, which makes co-ordination of any change impossible. Only a compulsory purchase would get rid of it, which the circumstan…
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Apologies if this is stating the obvious, but I recommend [Moveflat.com](http://www.moveflat.com) - always my favourite site in this category as it insists on more detailed ads and is totally free to use. It also has far more personality than the gr…
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Official opening time is 7am on Wed 15th. Looking at it now, it's going to be far smaller than the Tesco and with a much narrower (and therefore pricier) range, especially for normal groceries as opposed to ready meals, chilled wines etc. So the t…
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"Why have such high expectations anyway" is a bit of a classic as an argument, and deserves wider deployment in other contexts such as politics, child-rearing, sport etc. Andy, you might be despairing that your erstwhile urbane, witty website appea…
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I joined in and lobbied for a full range of cut-price Basics products, though I don't hold out much hope. Logically they would need to since the Tesco does provide the Value range. (Incidentally, the Sainsburys Basics products contain fantastic [sel…
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The [economics of empty buses](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b291a87c-0f9c-11df-b10f-00144feabdc0.html) are non-trivial, as it depends on the sensitivity of bus schedules to passenger demand. I would have thought that London bus schedules are highly res…
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Good news hopefully, and well done Siolae. SG.org for the win! (I suspect people have stopped saying that by now?)
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Graeme, the HarringayOnline thread is [here](http://www.harringayonline.com/forum/topics/fiveaside-plans-for-finsbury), though I believe you need to be logged in to read it.
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The official consultation is now live on the [council's website](http://www.haringey.gov.uk/index/community_and_leisure/greenspaces/parks_and_open_spaces_parks_facilities/finsburypark/footballconsultation.htm), though oddly the link from [here](http…
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I'm stuck in Chicago for an extra week - can't fly back until Friday at the earliest. Observing from afar, I'm not sure what's weirder - the volcanic ash story or Nick Clegg being hailed as the Messiah.
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Andy, your interpretation of that website seems wrong, since they state: "Voters in Hornsey & Wood Green have 2.05x more voting power than the UK average." I.e. a H&WG vote is actually twice as powerful as the average vote in the UK, thoug…
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@leiba1. Surely there's a better way than video evidence, which sounds risky to procure. How about taking DNA samples from offending turds and checking them against a DNA database of local dogs that the council could build? That should be good enoug…
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ADGS, some specific howlers jumped out and made the book seem sloppily written and/or badly edited - examples below. But typos and inaccuracies aside, I thought the attempt to convey a sense of Britain today via colour and anecdotes from particular …
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@andy you're welcome, though not a recommendation as such. Jane Jacobs is on my reading list. Will turn to it when I've finished my current random reading matter [Wigan Pier Revisited](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wigan-Pier-Revisited-Beatrix-Campbell/dp…
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This debate reminds me of [Ground Control](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ground-Control-Fear-Happiness-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0141033916/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264029288&sr=1-1), which wanted to be a blistering polemic on the creepin…
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Just on a pedantic note, this thread does not refer to the John Jones development but the nearby City North one, as I understand it. Can the title be changed, given that both developments may well be under discussion for the next several months and …
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There are also extensive suggestions for daytrips at [the other place](http://www.harringayonline.com/), though you may not strictly be local enough to qualify.
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My signal on Three is also near non-existent around Lancaster Road. We clearly need some more mobile phone masts all round. Could someone please tell the more scientifically-challenged campaigners among us (including the MP as well as the council …
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[I ♥ Google](http://chexed.com/ComputerTips/asciicodes.php) when researching stuff like this!
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This is not a recommendation, just a googling, but did you check the Unbiased website? It lists just the one N4-based IFA: a [Jonathan Bell](http://www.unbiased.co.uk/find-an-ifa/details/?Member=3903151990&Qualification= &FemaleIFA=false) of…
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Thanks, have just emailed the council on this. It's actually more dangerous than before, because it is so narrow that it encourages people to walk on the roadside of the railing or cross the road unsafely.
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£1,500! £900! Hurray for comparative advantage.
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Jai Krishna Petek Muna's (Green Lanes) Cats Rainbow Cafe
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[£4.3bn cost of delays](http://www.racfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=401&Itemid=0)
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Interesting that when this was debated in parliament yesterday, almost all the MPs who spoke, both Tory and Labour, disagreed with your view and sided with the Home Secretary on the matter. They saw the adviser as uppity and out of line. Only the Li…