the corner office

As weeks go, last week wasn't one of London's best. A young man's life cut brutally short by a dumbass who ponced around justifying his butchery in the name of Islam by quoting from Exodus (h/t).

Anyway. Someone commented on Facebook about how SA is a better place to be than London. The best thing to do when it comes to arguing on Facebook is simply not to, and so I kept quiet, but since I looked up the numbers, I thought I'd note them here for posterity: the murder rate in London is 1.1 in 100,000. The murder rate in Gauteng is 29.1 per 100,000 (down from around 40 when we left). That means that in a city of 8 million people, religious nutters could go out and kill another 2,000 people this year and London would still be a safer place than Joburg.

None of which would be of any comfort to poor Lee Rigby's family, but I still consider myself lucky to be able to live here.