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Available public reporting based on the 2021 census and 2025 summaries puts the UK Muslim share at roughly 6% of the overall population (Britain-wide), with England specifically around 6.7% and Scotla...
As of the sources collected in mid-to-late 2025, there is of how many mayors in England identify as Muslim. Reporting highlights several named Muslim mayors and a notable cluster of Muslim women holdi...
Available reporting from media outlets and aggregators shows a range of estimates for arrests in the UK tied to online speech in 2024: major compilations reported roughly 9,700 arrests based on data f...
Yes — during the mid-17th century the Puritan-dominated Parliament formally outlawed public and many domestic Christmas festivities in England (and the realms it then controlled), replacing feast days...
No reliable, consolidated count of Muslim mayors across England in 2025 is provided in the available reporting; fact‑checks say many viral lists are misleading and that only a small number of high‑pro...
Junior (resident) doctors in the UK are paid on structured NHS scales that vary by training grade, location and extra “enhancements” for nights, weekends and on‑call; basic pay for junior doctors rang...
Knife-enabled homicides in England and Wales rose to 262 in the year ending March 2024, up 8% from the prior year, and they accounted for 46% of the 570 homicides in 2023/24 (ONS/Home Office reporting...
Available sources show this season’s vaccine is estimated to reduce hospital attendance or admission by roughly 70–75% in children and 30–40% in adults, and public reporting indicates substantial hosp...
The most consistent, recent finding is , with England and Wales showing a documented rise in police-recorded rapes in 2024 and headline reports in 2025 describing record levels of reporting . At the s...
England recorded a notably high number of arrests for online communications in 2023—reported as over and “over 30 arrests per day”—and this figure has driven comparisons with other European countries ...
The UK’s Muslim population rose from about 1.6 million in 2001 to roughly 4.0 million in 2021, making Muslims about 6% of the overall UK population according to the Muslim Council of Britain’s census ...
Early 2025–26 data show the Northern Hemisphere vaccine still protects against current H3N2 activity: UK analyses estimate 70–75% effectiveness at preventing hospital attendance in children (2–17 year...
The most reliable, directly reported figure from the sources provided is the 2021 census count of , which makes and equates to roughly in that census . None of the supplied analyses gives a standalone...
UK Muslims have historically had higher fertility than the non‑Muslim population, driven largely by younger age profiles and higher birth rates among Pakistani and Bangladeshi-origin women, but those ...
The best available 2021-census–based estimates put the Muslim population in England and Wales at roughly 4.0 million people, which various analysts translate into depending on the geographic denominat...
A consistent pattern in the research reviewed is that male same-sex (gay) marriages tend to have the lowest divorce rates, while female same-sex (lesbian) marriages show the highest dissolution risk; ...
Claims that Jews were "largely" or predominantly responsible for the European slave trade from the 14th through 17th centuries do not stand up to careful historical scrutiny: evidence shows Jewish par...
The proportion of the UK population that is depends on the dataset and geography referenced: the 2021 Census figures imply roughly with UK-wide estimates varying by nation, while some analyses and pro...
The available August 2025 reporting documents that Vice President J.D. Vance took multiple trips — described as eight vacations in some pieces — and identifies specific such as a manor renting for abo...
The 2021 Census counted roughly 3.9 million people identifying as Muslim in England and Wales (about 6.5% of that population), up from about 2.7 million in 2011 — an increase of roughly 1.16 million o...