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Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia and is widely reported to have fled civil war as a child and later resettled in the United States as a refugee; several contemporary news pieces and profiles state she “...
There is verified evidence that Sharia councils operate in multiple UK cities and exert influence—most prominently in London and Manchester—but they do not form a parallel legal system with statutory ...
London remains one of the UK’s largest Muslim populations but is not uniquely dominant when compared to other urban centres; . Reports in 2025 highlight rapid growth since 2001, internal diversity, an...
Official census reporting and multiple analyses show fewer than half of people in the UK now describe themselves as Christian: around 46–46.6% in the 2021 census-derived releases (England & Wales / UK...
The original post bundles two claims: that Britain “gave up their firearms in 1997” and that “less than 30 years later” people are being arrested for Facebook posts. The first claim is grounded in the...
The United States is formally a constitutional republic with regular competitive elections, but experts and institutions increasingly classify its democratic quality as weakened or “flawed,” and some ...
The simple claim that “America was once owned by England and Spain” is misleading: of what is now the Americas were claimed, colonized, and governed at various times by Spain and by England (later Gre...
The Obama administration did use large, specially erected tents on the South Lawn for multiple state dinners — including the first Obama state dinner for India in 2009 and later dinners such as the 20...
Delfo Cabrera won the Olympic marathon in London in 1948, but he represented , not Great Britain. Contemporary and later records show Cabrera took gold in a dramatic finish ahead of Belgium’s Étienne ...
Two pieces of legislation in 1997 radically tightened handgun law across Great Britain: the Conservative government’s Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 outlawed larger-calibre handguns, and the incoming L...
Tents erected on the South Lawn have been a recurring solution for U.S. presidents who needed more capacity for official entertaining: multiple recent administrations — notably Barack Obama and Joe Bi...
The word "British" began in the 17th century largely as a projection of English and Scottish interests overseas and as a label for colonial identity rather than a settled internal national identity wi...
The White House has long relied on temporary tents on its grounds to expand capacity for large formal events—most commonly state dinners—dating at least as far back as a 1976 state dinner for Queen El...
Police custody data obtained and analysed by The Times and cited across parliamentary and civil-liberties reporting indicate roughly 12,000 arrests a year in recent years for communications or “online...
Several observable historical instances show that switching between D’Hondt (a party-list highest‑averages method) and Single Transferable Vote (STV, a candidate‑centred PR system) reshaped party ince...
Bob (Robert) Mathias of the United States won the Olympic decathlon at the first Summer Games after WWII (London 1948) at age 17, scoring 7,139 points and later repeating in 1952 . Fanny Blankers‑Koen...
As of mid‑2025, official DWP releases show millions on Universal Credit: government tables reported around 7.4 million people on UC in early 2025 (age breakdown figures reflected in Statista’s use of ...
There is a benefit cap in Great Britain that limits the total amount of working‑age benefits a household can receive; it has different monthly/annual levels and exemptions and affected tens of thousan...