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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Was Facebook cited as a reason for a third of UK divorces in 2010 in which unreasonable behaviour was a factor?
According to the Daily Mail:
Facebook is becoming a major factor in marriage breakdowns and is
increasingly being used as a source of evidence in divorce cases,
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Did the Rotherham rapists shout Allahu Akbar at their sentencing?
The Rotherham scandal is a case of widespread organised child sexual abuse in the city of Rotherham in England. Over a period of years, more than 1,400 girls, many of them pre-teens, were raped and ...
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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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Did Massachusetts assume "a right to treat the Indians on the footing of Canaanites or Amelekites"?
According to the 1855 The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay page 13:
the first planters of the state of Massachusetts expressly assumed for themselves a right to treat the Indians on the footing of ...
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Are Dr. Zakir Naik's speeches banned in the UK, Canada, and Malaysia?
NDTV, which is currently India's Most Trusted TV Media Brand, claims:
Mr Naik's speeches are banned in the UK, Canada and Malaysia.
This post by The Daily Star (Bangladesh's most widely circulated ...
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Did European Muslim protestors carry signs "Shariah for the Netherlands", "Islam Will Dominate the World, Freedom Can Go to Hell"
Does the following alleged photograph represent an actual demonstration by real self-identified Muslims, in Europe?
I found at: http://www.billionbibles.org/sharia/sharia-europe.html
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Has the Council of Europe called for the banning of British newspapers mentioning when a terrorist is Muslim?
From the Daily Mail: European human rights chiefs order the British press NOT to reveal when terrorists are Muslims in crackdown on freedom of speech
European human rights chiefs have told the ...
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Was there a spike in hate crimes after the Brexit referendum?
Was there a spike in hate crimes after the Brexit referendum?
Example claim: 'Horrible spike' in hate crime linked to Brexit vote, Met police say
A “horrible spike” in hate crime after Britain’s ...
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Are the claims in this infographic about the UK Prime Minister accurate?
The image below is getting lots of attention on social media (Twitter)
It's pretty damning, but is it accurate?
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Did the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee's report say NATO's intervention in Libya was based on "lies"?
GlobalResearch.ca reports:
Specifically, a new report from the bipartisan House of Commons
Foreign Affairs Committee – based on interviews with all of the key
British decision-makers, review of ...
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Is the UK's trade with the EU artifically inflated by having to ship its exports via Europe?
I was talking to a pro-Brexit UK woman who made some... interesting claims about UK-EU trade that I hadn't heard before and couldn't immediately counter.
She claimed the UK's apparently very large ...
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Could you drive a tank through London and not have to pay the congestion fee?
In the following video Ross Noble tells an interviewer that you can drive a tank on UK roads and also that it is congestion fee exempt. If we ignore for a moment the practical issue of driving a tank ...
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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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Are refugees in the UK holidaying in the countries they fled from?
According to UK Conservative MP Adam Holloway, quoted in the Daily Express:
“Likewise, we have people in this country who have come here, claimed asylum and then go back on holiday in the places ...
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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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Has freedom of movement of people lead to a reduction in wages and worsening of working conditions in the UK?
Has freedom of movement of people lead to a reduction of wages, and a worsening of working conditions, in the UK?
From 'If you've got money, you vote in ... if you haven't got money, you vote out'
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Did the UK slip to sixth largest world economy from fifth, less than 24 hours after the EU referendum vote?
Some news sources have reported that in the 24 hours after the UK's results on the EU referendum came through, the UK dropped from 5th largest economy in the world, to 6th, being overtaken by France.
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Does the UK send the EU £350 million a week?
I got this propaganda leaflet through my door today, this has been widely claimed by parties in favor of the British EU referendum:
We send the EU £350 million a week - let's fund our NHS instead
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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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Was singer Taio Cruz's birth name Adetayo Ayowale Onile-Ere?
Singer Taio Cruz has a web page that lists his full name as follows:
Jacob Taio Cruz (Pronounced as ‘Tie’ ‘O’)
In several other places, his birth name is listed differently:
Music Brainz
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Is 2016 cursed for celebrities? [closed]
Here in the UK, it seems like every single day this year there has been another celebrity death. Before we have chance to mourn them or celebrate their achievements, another one pops off. People are ...
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Was Stonehenge built in the 1950s?
A set of photos from a Russian web-site apparently show Stonehenge being built in the 1950s, rather than the more customary dates of 3000-2000 BC.
An conspiracy theory web-site Max Resistance ...
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Is most of London's air pollution 'is caused by drivers from outside the capital'?
According to today's (29th Feb 2016) Evening Standard
London's air pollution 'is caused by drivers from outside the capital'
Implying that whatever London does about air pollution, there will ...
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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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Is "Syphilis: All of these men have it" a WWII propaganda poster?
Spotted via https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/692846941034549248 (courtesy of a parody picture in https://twitter.com/Megapope/status/692850205297741827), but described as real by Mother Jones in ...
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Do 22% of Muslim women in the UK speak little or no English?
According to the BBC, the UK government claims:
22% of Muslim women living in England speak little or no English.
It also quotes a former Superintendent of the Metro Police as disputing this ...
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Are the 2016 UK guidelines on alcohol consumption evidence based?
The UK government issues public health advice about how much booze people ought to consume. It has recently revised those guidelines. The previous guidelines were the subject of this SK.SE question: ...
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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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Are 3 in 4 attenders at hospital emergency departments on weekends there because of alcohol?
This claim has been widely repeated this week in many newspapers and news sites (e.g. arstechnica). Here is how the Daily Telegraph repeats it:
Three in four people in accident and emergency units at ...
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Did Tony Benn say this about "the establishment"?
I don't think people realise how the establishment became established. They simply stole land and property from the poor, surrounded themselves with weak minded sycophants for protection, gave ...
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Did the No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron score the most kills in the Battle of Britain?
It's often claimed in Polish media that No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron scored the most kills in the whole Battle of Britain. This claim is repeated in Wikipedia, although with annotation [citation ...
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Did Prime Minister David Cameron commit necrophilia with a pig's head?
Doing the rounds on Twitter at the moment is the idea that UK Prime Minister David Cameron did something unspeakable to a dead pigs head when he was in University.
Twitter being Twitter, the actual ...
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Does it cost £1.5 to clean up every piece of gum left on UK Streets?
This advertisement is claiming that it costs 50 times more for the city to clean up gum, than it takes to buy the stuff (at least in the UK). For a total of £1.5. Which seems strange, as normally ...
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Have 'upland farmers' struggled to protect livestock from foxes since the fox hunting ban in the UK
The Daily Mail reports plans to repeal the fox-hunting ban.
At present it is legal to hunt with two hounds to flush a fox to a gun. If the proposed change went ahead, the exemption would cover ...
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Is Queen Elizabeth queuing for a sandwich in this photo?
Found it floating around Facebook with comments praising the queen for behaving like ordinary people.
Did the Queen Elizabeth actually queue for a sandwich in this photo? Or something else is ...
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Have more British Muslims joined Islamist groups than serve in British armed forces?
From the New York Times: Her Majesty’s Jihadists
Her Majesty’s Jihadists
More British Muslims have joined Islamist militant groups than serve
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Are razor blades tax-free in the UK?
A comic by artist Naoise Dolan published March 2015 has been circulating heavily on social media:
The world according to the UK government:
Men’s razors are taxed as necessities because you need to ...
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Were staff at Bletchley Park predominantly male?
In The Imitation Game, most of the staff portrayed on-screen were male, and Joan Clarke faced sexist assumptions that because she was a woman, she was in the wrong room when she tried to go into the ...
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Are members of organized rape gangs in the UK mostly of Kashmir / Pakistani origin?
On BBC three's Free Speech, Does ‘rape culture’ exist in the UK?, James Delingpole, Executive Editor Breitbart London made a claim (4:10 mark) that was followed by boos from the audience and a charge ...
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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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Are the UK and Sweden in violation of international law with respect to detaining Julian Assange?
According to https://freeassangenow.org/faq and https://justice4assange.com/:
Why do the UK and Sweden disobey international law?
There is a conflict between the United Kingdom’s obligations to the ...
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Was there an electoral fraud during the referendum for the independance of Scotland?
Peter Moore, a francophone Canadian Youtuber, says in a Youtube video that there was an electoral fraud during the referendum about the independance of Scotland.
Given the ballot paper looked like ...
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Were fathers arrested while trying to rescue their daughters from rape in Britain at least on two occasions?
Front Page Mag (a blog for the conservative David Horowitz Freedom Center) quotes an unnamed report that UK authorities were complicit in the support of sexually abusive Muslims:
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Is viewing extremist material a terrorism offence?
In regard to the quote from the Metropolitan Police warning, is it an offence specifically under the terrorism legislation to watch a video?
A Met police spokesperson
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Does the UK have enough wind to power the country five times over?
Greenpeace UK tweeted about the UK having enough wind to power the country five times over:
MT @1010: The UK has enough wind to power the country five times over. Let's use it!
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Is it true that Prince Charles can be bypassed in the line of succession? [closed]
This source posits that the succession to the British throne is ultimately in the hands of the Parliament, not the queen or royal family.
The news source considers an important counter argument to ...
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Did Benjamin Franklin almost cause a war between England and France over a hoax letter to a London newspaper?
This story shows up a lot in sites like Reddit:
In the late 1700's, a letter appeared in the major London newspaper complaining that England was being forced to take deported French prisoners. The ...
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Is refusing to decrypt data for the police illegal in England and Wales?
I've been recently downloading PuTTY from the official page and I have noticed a message stating:
LEGAL WARNING: Use of PuTTY, PSCP, PSFTP and Plink is illegal in countries where encryption is ...
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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
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