Josh Nicholson @JoshNicholson50
Head of Housing & Communities @csjthinktank | all views my own London Joined September 2015-
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@csjthinktank pleased to welcome @ShabanaMahmood plan to strengthen closure orders and shut down criminal high street businesses. We need to see new closure powers that are instant, easy to use, and that keeps criminals off our high streets. gov.uk/government/new…
How do we take back our high streets? Watch this space for a major new report by the CSJ. x.com/csjthinktank/s…
🚨BREAKING: A renewed @ukhomeoffice effort to crack down on dodgy high street shops is welcome. But trading standards need stronger powers to shut them down. 96% of standards professionals surveyed said they had encountered organised crime groups @CTSI_UK 🤯 Our plan will set
@EdThomasNews team at BBC have led the way in exposing "brazen criminality on the High Street" and the organised crime networks behind the thousands of vape shops, mini marts, and barbers that have sprung up all over Britain. Pleased to contribute on behalf of @csjthinktank 👇
How our High Streets became a window on our political instability… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Over 2/5 independent shopkeepers have reported their stolen products being resold locally in criminal high street businesses. Britain's high streets are broken. Later this summer @csjthinktank will set out a plan to repair them. @MatthewTorbitt explains ⬇️
Britain in 2026: Locking up chocolate instead of shoplifters. The government must crack down on prolific high street theft, which is now fuelling an underworld of organised crime. More👇 @MatthewTorbitt
🚨BREAKING: A renewed @ukhomeoffice effort to crack down on dodgy high street shops is welcome. But trading standards need stronger powers to shut them down. 96% of standards professionals surveyed said they had encountered organised crime groups @CTSI_UK 🤯 Our plan will set out how we get our high streets back👇
Working class communities don’t want to be told they got Brexit wrong. They were sending a message, and Labour still hasn’t properly heard it. They voted for change, and they’re still waiting for politicians to deliver it - for their towns, their industries, their way of life. That means secure work, pride in place, and control over their own communities. A Labour party worth its name stands with them, not above them. That is the test for any Labour leader.
Here we go again. Sick of the Westminster psychodrama? We’re focused on learning from the charities getting on with fixing broken Britain. Find out more👇
An important and timely report. Good to see this issue, and the brilliant work of Trading Standards officers, get the coverage it deserves.
CTSI and @The_ACG have launched a report on the spread of "dodgy shops" on UK high streets. We are urging the Government to provide enforcement agencies - including Local Authority Trading Standards - the resources and powers needed to clamp down on the issue. #ShutTheDodgyShops
Concerning that Rachel Reeves is apparently considering rent controls. Rent controls do not work, and would cause huge damage to our housing market. Instead, Labour should take on the NIMBY interest groups stopping Britain building. labourlist.org/2026/04/green-…
‼️NEW: Data out today shows that 2/3 of convicted shoplifters reoffend. The CSJ can reveal that the average number of offences committed by a shoplifter has nearly DOUBLED in the last 5 years, increasing from 5.5 to 9.1. We must address soaring shoplifting levels if we are to repair Britain's broken high streets.
New @csjthinktank analysis shows the extent of career criminality in Britain. 🚨 67% of shoplifters go on to reoffend, committing an average of 9 additional crimes each 🚨 When did such criminality become tolerated? cityam.com/national-scand…
Public know they have to pass criminal record checks and references for their jobs, just as intuitively they know that for some powerful elites the same rules don’t apply. Somehow it’s still considered a head scratcher in SW1 why ppl want to smash it all to pieces.
Mandelson isn’t an aberration, but the relational logic of the machine working as intended. Moral conviction has been devalued in both our people and our arguments. This is the inevitable result. We must start saying what for too long we have been willing only to think. 🔗👇
Street Scar. If you would like to stop this degradation of our high streets & town centres and think that it matters then you might find it useful to read…
Quality repair in Liverpool One. Almost invisible.
New data analysis by @LibDems MP @mpmwilko shows that reported thefts have risen by 133% in the past 5 years📈 However, only 19.83% of offences resulted in a charge❗️ @JoshNicholson50 explained why this infuriates the public in our inaugural episode of Double Take🎙️
How does a government lose track of £850m in benefits? And why was a supermarket worker punished for stopping a theft? 🎙️Double Take - the latest podcast from the CSJ is out now. Two stories. Two researchers. One podcast.🎧 This week, Ben Gregg and Josh Nicholson break down
Absolutely right. The surge in shoplifting is being driven by organised criminals, and is linked to the growth in dodgy vape shops and mini-marts. @ACS_LocalShops Crime Report 2026 found that 1/4 legit retailers have noticed stolen goods being resold in their area 👇
We need to tackle the pervasive myth that most shoplifters steal to feed themselves. The most commonly stolen items are meat, alcohol and confectionary. They are being taken by ultra-prolific offenders for resale. This increases food prices for everyone. @JeremyVineOn5
@BenNebGregg and I try our best to imitate @holland_tom and @dcsandbrook with some robust analysis of the top political issues this week + hopefully some interesting policy solutions...
How does a government lose track of £850m in benefits? And why was a supermarket worker punished for stopping a theft? 🎙️Double Take - the latest podcast from the CSJ is out now. Two stories. Two researchers. One podcast.🎧 This week, Ben Gregg and Josh Nicholson break down
@ChristineKayNew A good point but extend that graph to the 1930s and you'll see that private housebuilders built hundreds of thousands of new homes before our prohibitive post-war planning system was introduced!
The Green's housing policy must be a wake-up call for Labour. Rent controls and fantasy social housing quotas distract from the root cause of why housing is so unaffordable and would do more harm than good. Some thoughts on how Labour should respond 👇 labourlist.org/2026/04/green-…
@BenNebGregg @Harrybrads01 The common law is no laughing matter, friend.
Walker Smith’s unjust sacking has united the nation. The fact that Waitrose management are being this tin-eared in refusing to give him his job back just shows how deeply embedded our health and safety crazed, liability-panicked, HR dominated, corporate culture has become. We must once again become a country that praises heroes and denounces villains
Guardian readers are suggesting a “Don’t-shop Wednesday” at Waitrose, in support of Walker Smith theguardian.com/business/2026/…
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