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   Fredxx to Colin Bignell   
   Re: London   
   23 Jul 23 07:34:00   
   
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   From: fredxx@spam.invalid   
      
   On 22/07/2023 23:39, Colin Bignell wrote:   
   > On 22/07/2023 23:13, Carolyn Jean Swikard Berg wrote:   
   >> Statistics don't lie:   
   >>   
   >   
   > As Mark Twain wrote, attributing it, possibly mistakenly, to Disraeli:   
   > There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics   
      
   Only if you don't like the numbers.   
      
   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7856787/Violent-in   
   er-city-crime-the-figures-and-a-question-of-race.html   
      
   The article is 13 years old, but I doubt much has changed.   
      
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