London is becoming the new San Francisco

The capital is a textbook example of criminology’s “broken windows theory"

Earlier this week Paul Scully, the Tory MP, provoked outrage among the commentariat when he warned that there are “no-go areas” in Birmingham and London.

Scully had been referring to places such as Tower Hamlets, where he said that people were “using” and “abusing” Islam. Although he added the caveat that their practice was not the actual “doctrine of I…