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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...
Zack Polanski was born David Paulden (full forms in reporting vary; some sources give David Stephen Paulden) on 2 November 1982 in Salford, Greater Manchester and changed his name at 18 to reclaim his...
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...
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; ...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 UK’s Muslim population stood at roughly 3.9 million in the 2021 Census—about 6–6.5% of the national population—concentrated in major urban centres such as London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford ...
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...
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...
Publicly available analyses find that, overall, foreign nationals in England and Wales are imprisoned or convicted at roughly similar rates to British nationals once the younger age profile of many mi...
The most reliable synthesis of the provided analyses is that Muslims make up roughly of the population in England (about 3.9 million in England and Wales in 2021 census-derived counts), but the source...
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 original phrase "muslim rape" is an imprecise and potentially harmful framing that conflates a crime with a religious group and lacks reliable, disaggregated data to support broad claims. Availabl...
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...
Surveys of British Muslims show sizable but variable levels of support for “sharia” depending on how the question is asked: Policy Exchange and similar polls reported roughly 40–43% saying they would ...