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Claims that London mayor Sadiq Khan is trying to “get rid of the word ‘Christmas’” or that he dislikes Christmas circulate widely on social media and fringe sites after this year’s festive events; the...
Available reporting consistently states that Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, gave birth to two children with Prince Harry: Archie in May 2019 and Lilibet (Lili) in June 2021, and outlets report maternity-w...
The available materials do not supply a definitive percentage of Londoners who identified as Muslim in 2025; no source in the provided set reports a direct London share. The strongest concrete datapoi...
Virginia Giuffre’s memoir and related court filings name and describe encounters with a mix of identified and unnamed powerful men tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse network, most prominently and , while...
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...
The first Summer Olympics after World War II were the 1948 London Games (29 July–14 August 1948), sometimes called the “Austerity Games” . The United States led the medal table and won the most golds ...
There is no authoritative evidence in provided reporting that UK cities contain officially designated “no‑go zones” where police or outsiders are physically barred; mainstream UK outlets and local gov...
The Muslim population in London has , mirroring a national increase in the UK where the Muslim population rose sharply between 2011 and 2021 and broader 2025 reporting underscores continued demographi...
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...
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 ...
Deutsche Bank was one of the few large lenders that repeatedly gave Donald Trump and the Trump Organization large loans — over $2 billion in total across years, with roughly $340 million outstanding i...
The available analyses agree that , with Birmingham, parts of Greater London (notably Tower Hamlets and Newham), Bradford, Manchester, Leicester, Luton and Blackburn with Darwen among the places repea...
Reuters and other fact‑checkers show the viral claim that many English mayors elected in May 2024 were Muslim is misleading: only London’s directly elected mayor, Sadiq Khan, is clearly identified as ...
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...
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 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...
Birmingham remains one of the UK’s largest Muslim-majority urban concentrations: the 2021 census recorded , making it one of the highest city-level shares in England and Wales . Nationally, Muslims ar...
The claim that many English cities have had Muslim mayors since 2000 is ; reliable, recent analyses identify only a small set of verifiable cases, with Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) being the clearest ...
A true physical silver shortage is signalled when multiple market layers—futures distortions (backwardation), spiking lease rates, collapsing inventories across major hubs, and sustained regional prem...