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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Did the BBC censor a non-binary character in Transformers: EarthSpark?
Bleeding Cool, a news site focused on comics and other pop culture, reported that the BBC censored a scene in Transformers: EarthSpark in which the character Nightshade discusses how they are non-...
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Was AI used in the June 2024 NHS data breach?
There is a BBC segment called "AI Decoded" in which they have convened a panel of cyber security experts. The episode is titled "Hackers expose deep cybersecurity vulnerabilities in AI&...
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When did Saddam Hussein kill 12,000 people in one day through the use of chemical weapons?
In 2023Mar, 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq led by the US & the UK and the 1st anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the AFP News Agency posted an interview with former UK ...
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Are Spire Healthcare doctors contracted to work 168 hours per week?
BBC News states that doctors are contracted by Spire Healthcare to work up to 168 hours per week.
The BBC also obtained testimony from doctors - contracted by the company to work up to 168 hours a ...
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Did UK NHS nurses mistreat a Jewish boy because they "supported Palestine"?
Claim: A 9 year old boy with blood disorder was mistreated at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (the way I interpreted the claim was that he was actually denied treatment and made to lie on the ...
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Do trucks cause disproportionate pedestrian and cyclist fatalities for the distance travelled?
In an interview with Autonomy, Volta Trucks founder, Carl-Magnus Norden, said:
in London trucks constituted only 4% of road miles but 26% of pedestrian fatalities and 78% of cyclist fatalities.
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Are half of transgender women inmates (in England and Wales) sex offenders or category A prisoners?
The group Fair Play for Women published a report in Oct 2017 claiming that
Half of all trans-identifying males (transwomen) in prison are convicted sex offenders or dangerous Category A prisoners.
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Did UK hospital tell the police that a patient was not raped because the alleged attacker was transgender?
The Daily Telegraph wrote in 2022 (archive.is link):
Hospital told police patient was not raped because alleged attacker was transgender
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Lady Nicholson said that the case had arisen as a direct ...
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Does an official UK government report show 'Hope Not Hate' as a radical extremist hate group?
On the 12th of February 2023 Douglas Murray, Author and political commentator, wrote the following tweet:
Evidence from official UK government report shows radical far-left group ‘Hope Not Hate’ (@...
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Were over 3,000 persons arrested in Britain for social media posts in 2018?
In 2019, John Anderson interviewed Konstantin Kisin. The discussion is transcribed by me. I is the interviewer and K is for Konstantin.
K: In Russia last year 400 people were arrested for things that ...
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Do 1 in 4 of us experience mental health problems each year?
I have seen this quote before but today I received an internal company email with this quote.
The ratio is also cited on page 7 of this 2014 report by Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London:
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Is there a significant number of people who claim benefits when they could work instead?
The Home Secretary of the United Kingdom Suella Braverman recently claimed that there is a "stubborn core of our population that sees welfare as the go-to option [and] is not motivated... to get ...
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Does an “average-sized” power station pay over a quarter billion pounds per day when unable to generate electricity?
Given the war in Ukraine and associated sanctions on Russia and reciprocal withholding of supply, Europe is facing a gas shortage.
The UK imports very little Russian gas, but because of the reduced ...
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Did UK police agree to drop sex-offense charges in exchange for an apology?
In the United Kingdom, Community Resolution Orders give the police the powers to deal with minor offences in which the offender pleads guilty and agrees to reparations, without using the court systems ...
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Is their tax bill the single biggest cost of living for most households in the UK?
Mark Littlewood wrote an opinion article in The Telegraph [unpaywalled alternative] atacking the UK's Conservative Party.
He claimed:
For most households, the single biggest cost of living is their ...
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