Questions tagged [united-kingdom]
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe.
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Is sexual harassment of girls increasing in schools?
This article claims that experts told UK MP's that sexual harassment is increasing in schools because of internet pornography. However, I haven't seen any references to studies done on the subject so ...
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Did Yuri Gagarin eat a lemon out a cup of tea when dining with the English Queen?
There is an anecdote, popular in Russia, about Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, who was served tea with lemon when dining with the English Queen.
After he had had the tea, he reached into the ...
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Was the UK's drive to acquire civilian metals to use in WW2 necessary for the war effort?
This question was asked here recently:
Were World War II scrap drives in the United States truly necessary for the procurement of raw materials?
And it has produced some very solid analysis and ...
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Is Britain's housing crisis caused by migrants?
In the Sunday Times on 26th November 2017, journalist Rod Liddle makes a case for our need to build new houses being exclusively due to immigration. He claims that the demand for new houses is not due ...
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Were all but one of the US presidents descended from King John of England?
The Daily Mail says:
A 12-year-old girl created family tree linking 42 of 43 U.S. presidents to King John of England, who signed the Magna Carta in 1215.
Only the eighth president, Martin Van ...
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Do almost half of Londoners think that cutting immigration would help London's housing crisis?
As a Christmas present on the 25th I just got a leaflet from UKIP in my post stating that
44% of Londoners say that cutting EU immigration would help solve the
London housing crisis.
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Is it routine for Sweden prosecutors to travel to the UK to question people they are looking to arrest?
According to an investigation of the Assange case:
The Swedish prosecutor, Marianne Ny, has refused to come to London to question Assange about allegations of sexual misconduct in Stockholm in 2010 ...
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Have the Russian state media spread 21 theories about the Salisbury chemical attack?
The U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has recently said in his article (highlight mine):
Our allies have not been deterred by Russia’s usual tactics for avoiding pressure. Sure enough, the Kremlin ...
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Did Stalin personally tell Churchill that "the great bulk" of "10 millions" people were "wiped out" during collectivization?
The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill: Face to Face with Stalin Life Magazine 30 October 1950 at pages 104 and 106:
[about 1am August 18, 1942]
"I thought you would have found it bad," said ...
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Do 30 year old Millennials have lower average household income than Gen X did?
A 2017 Business Insider article claims that, in the UK:
for the first time in more than 100 years the current generation of workers — millennials — are doing worse than the generation before them, ...
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Was a flamethrower used to incinerate Skripal's cat after its death?
In March 2018, British spy Sergei Skripal is believed to have been poisoned in his home with a nerve agent. Wikipedia explains his three pets died:
On 5 April 2018, British authorities said that ...
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Did Master Stone Masons have to Bow to the King?
I have heard this multiple times, including in a documentary once. The claim is that the Master Stonemason, in historic times, did not have to bow to the King (generally implied to be from the British ...
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Were 59% of British people unable to name the then Prime Minister David Cameron in 2015?
According to this article The British public still have no idea what they voted for with Brexit – it’s not elitist to admit it, it is claimed:
A survey carried out in the run up to the 2015 general ...
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In the UK, are young white men the most derided ethnic/gender/age group?
A month, or so, ago this YouGov study was trending on FB and attracting some controversy.
The most derided ethnic group in Britain: young white men
YouGov data from 48 separate surveys reveals that ...
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Are Scotland's oil and gas reserves dwindling?
This article states that Scotland's oil and gas reserves and tax incomes are dwindling:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/07/scottish-independence-economic-implications-niesr
Scotland's ...
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Does higher education increase international competitiveness?
In this story, the UK chancellor is quoted as saying:
Each year, around 60,000 young people who have worked hard at school,
got the results, want to go on learning and want to take out a loan to
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Does the "Eatwell plate" cost £16.70 per week?
The "Eatwell Plate" is a broad dietary recommendation produced by the UK National Health Service.
This article in The Guardian says that a diet based on the Eatwell plate could cost as little as £16....
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Was Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, the largest private house in the UK?
Wentworth Woodhouse is a large country house in South Yorkshire, England.
In 2016, Mansions Global describe it as:
the largest private house in the UK
In 2014, Yorkshire Life described it as
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Is Boris Johnson the only politician in British history to set up a photoshoot of the signing of their own resignation letter?
Tom Watson, deputy leader of the British Labour party, said this about outgoing foreign secretary Boris Johnson in an interview on radio station LBC:
[Boris Johnson is] the only politician in UK ...
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Did Queen Elizabeth attempt to warn her nation that "2017 will be a year of slaughter the likes of which we haven’t seen since World War 2“?
According to stories spreading through social media, as well as some webpages (for example this article: Queen Elizabeth Placed Under ‘House Arrest’ After Christmas Message) that Queen Elizabeth ...
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Were elderly patients denied dialysis in the UK during the 70s?
During a news broadcast by the Israeli public channel on March 15th, prof. Jonathan Halevy, the manager of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center said:
לבריטניה יש היסטוריה עם בעניין הזה. בשנות ה-70 לא עשו ...
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Are there more than 20 million pieces of art in London's galleries?
This video claims that there are more than 20 million pieces of art in London's galleries.
The video is an attempt to see all the art in London in a single day. The protagonist in the video got to ...
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Did Whiskey taxation make up 30%-50% of England's revenue?
In this article it is claimed that (1st paragraph):
Especially in England and Ireland, it became the drink of choice, and through taxation, came to contribute 30%-50% of the nation’s revenue.
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Did an Irish teen accidentally fire a bottle rocket at Queen Elizabeth IIs Motorcade during her 1977 Silver Jubilee visit to the Isle of Man?
I just came across this screenshot of a Tumblr conversation on Twitter:
In the story, the author describes how his father took part of a scouting jamboree on the Isle of Man in 1977 and set off some ...
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Is this "the largest single donation to Oxford University since the Renaissance"?
The University of Oxford recently announced a £150 million donation from Stephen Schwartzmann, which their press release (PDF) prominently calls "the largest single donation to Oxford University since ...
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Is the UK experiencing wage growth for people on low incomes?
In a TV interview with Andrew Marr on 3 Oct 2021, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed that UK wages were growing for people on low incomes. The interviewer (Marr) said that wasn't true - Johnson ...
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Did the police cover up their decision to allow mass-killer Thomas Hamilton to retain his gun licence?
Thomas Hamilton was responsible for the 1996 Dunblane School Massacre,
In 1991, Detective Sergeant Paul Hughes reportedly recommended that Hamilton's firearm licence be revoked - but the police took ...
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Did Jamshid Piruz enter the UK unchallenged?
From the Daily Mail, but also mentioned by Russia Today and similar sources: link
Afghan-born Jamshid Piruz was allowed to enter the UK unchallenged despite being sentenced to 12 years in jail for ...
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Is llama meat popular amongst Britain's gurkha communities?
In "Eating this exotic meat may seriously damage your health" (2013-06-16) The Independent claims:
Although still relatively rare, llama is increasingly popular, especially among Britain’s gurkha ...
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