Square Mile risponde: come la City di Londra combatte la disinformazione sulla criminalità

Part of this is misinformation coming from both rivals and allies. It ranges from the EU, who wanted to paint the UK as Fascism Island post-2016 to empower their own finance sector. To the Saudis who are offering massive benefits to the rich and investors. To Russian-paid “travel” bloggers and the others. 

That said, let’s not pretend crime is down when our prisons are so dangerously full that people are serving now under half their sentences and Lammy wants to end jury trials because so many cases are backlogged. Generally there’s a perception now we are weak on hard crime but extremely harsh on speech and things like porn.

The use of the word disinformation is very important here. Disinformation is much more deliberate and malicious than misinformation. And that’s exactly what happening here.