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The best publicly reported figures indicate UK police made roughly 12,000 arrests a year for “offensive” online communications (about “more than 30 arrests a day”) based on custody data compiled by Th...
Official reporting and independent analyses converge on the same headline: roughly 12,000 arrests a year in recent years have been linked to online communications in the UK, equivalent to about 30–33 ...
The UK’s “grooming gang” scandal refers to multiple high-profile investigations and convictions of group-based child sexual exploitation across towns such as Rotherham, Rochdale and others, with inqui...
The best available reporting indicates roughly 12,000 arrests in the UK in 2023 for communications offences that include social media posts, a figure widely cited by The Times and synthesised in Freed...
The analyses consistently identify , reported at 4.7 sexual crimes per 1,000 people, with following closely in published region-level figures . National survey releases from the Office for National St...
The available analyses present conflicting claims about the Newsom family’s geographic origins before settling in California: one cluster of sources traces the surname to (West Yorkshire, East Riding,...
The arrests for social-media posts in the UK in 2024 were driven overwhelmingly by a trio of communications and public‑order offences — section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, section 1 of the Mal...
Most arrests for social-media posts in the UK in 2023–24 were carried out under a small group of legacy communications and public‑order statutes: Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and the Mal...
UK authorities and prosecutors now routinely treat a wide range of online communications as potential criminal offences: custody and arrest data cited by multiple outlets show roughly 10–12,000 arrest...
There is no single, authoritative list of MPs’ religions, so press outlets and community groups offer competing tallies for 2024–25 — most report roughly 24–25 Muslim MPs in the House of Commons, clus...
Available reporting shows UK police made roughly 12,000 arrests a year for “offensive” online communications around 2023, equivalent to more than 30 arrests per day, but those figures cover a broad mi...
There have been , including cases where perpetrators were white and mixed ethnicity, and official studies find that group-based child sexual exploitation offenders are most commonly white. At the same...
UK police do not record “arrests for social media posts” as a distinct national category; forces record offences by legal offence types or Reason for Arrest (RFA) codes such as malicious communication...
Police custody data obtained and reported in major outlets show roughly 12,000 UK arrests in a recent year for online communications described as “offensive” or causing “anxiety”, which equates to “mo...
Available reporting identifies roughly 12,000 arrests in the UK in 2023 for offences recorded under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 — ...
The analyses converge on three core findings: , significant , and . Recent reporting and parliamentary scrutiny dated between September 2025 and May 2026 collectively frame these factors as reinforcin...
Leicestershire police reported the highest rate of communications‑related arrests per 100,000 population in 2023 — 83 per 100,000 — according to data collated by The Times and discussed in subsequent ...
London, Birmingham and Manchester each host large Muslim communities, but they differ in scale and local concentration: Birmingham is reported as the single local authority with the largest Muslim pop...
Dan Cohen is the current Lord Mayor of Leeds, having become the city’s 131st incumbent following the council’s annual meeting and serving in the ceremonial role through to May 2026 . The Lord Mayor is...
Mohammed Shafiq is the current Lord Mayor of the City of Bradford for the 2025/26 municipal year, having been appointed by Bradford Council at its annual meeting; his appointment and civic role are re...