How London is Misperceived. With Dr Jack Brown
Sep 21, 2026 · 23 min · 8 segments
The Policy Institute at King's College has produced an authoritative study…
Sep 21, 2026 · 23 min · 8 segments
The Policy Institute at King's College has produced an authoritative study…
Jack BrownGuest
Dave HillHost
You said earlier, and you've said a couple of times, I think, that these different sets of perceptions, and you stressed, I'm sure, quite rightly, that this isn't just reform supporters and, to a lesser extent, conservative supporters.
He said, you know, everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but they're not entitled to their own facts.
And as a Londoner, you know, and as someone I've written about, I've made it my sort of personal interest to kind of, to defend London from some of the anti-Londonism that's out there.
And this also applies to kind of how much money London makes for the country and things like that, which are kind of less controversial, but the public is also still wrong about.
But, you know, that's a very complicated kind of equation and I can kind of live with that.
But some of the crime stuff is more visceral, is more kind of emotional to me because it's the sense that London is a place where you're very likely to get murdered or experience violent crime when the reality is that it is the lowest region in the country.
And just if you took away all of the, you know, political leadership and, you know, anything except for the fact that it's a city, you would expect a city to be a more sort of violent place because that's kind of historically been the case.
And then the fact that the public believe that it's kind of the opposite, that's a big misperceptions gap.
You said earlier, and you've said a couple of times, I think, that these different sets of perceptions, and you stressed, I'm sure, quite rightly, that this isn't just reform supporters and, to a lesser extent, conservative supporters.
He said, you know, everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but they're not entitled to their own facts.
And as a Londoner, you know, and as someone I've written about, I've made it my sort of personal interest to kind of, to defend London from some of the anti-Londonism that's out there.
And this also applies to kind of how much money London makes for the country and things like that, which are kind of less controversial, but the public is also still wrong about.
But, you know, that's a very complicated kind of equation and I can kind of live with that.
But some of the crime stuff is more visceral, is more kind of emotional to me because it's the sense that London is a place where you're very likely to get murdered or experience violent crime when the reality is that it is the lowest region in the country.
And just if you took away all of the, you know, political leadership and, you know, anything except for the fact that it's a city, you would expect a city to be a more sort of violent place because that's kind of historically been the case.
And then the fact that the public believe that it's kind of the opposite, that's a big misperceptions gap.
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