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The war between Ukraine and Russia has competing start dates depending on how you define “the war.” Large-scale fighting that is widely referenced today began with Russia’s full-scale invasion on 24 F...
Recent Home Office police-recorded hate crime data for England and Wales show overall hate crimes rose modestly to 115,990 in the year ending March 2025 (excluding Metropolitan Police data), while oth...
The monarch retains formal constitutional powers — including dissolving Parliament and appointing or dismissing a prime minister — but by long-standing convention these are exercised on ministerial ad...
Reform UK’s publicly recorded positions on Ukraine and NATO membership consist mainly of high-profile comments by party leaders rather than a single, detailed party manifesto: leader Nigel Farage publ...
Available reporting does not show the UK has ever imposed sanctions on Donald Trump as an individual; UK sanctions in 2025 targeted Russian, Chinese and cyber actors, and the UK has coordinated some s...
The British armed forces of 2025 are smaller in manpower but more equipment-focused and budget-conscious than in the mid-1980s, reflecting decades of post‑Cold War drawdown and a recent political push...
The British armed forces in 1958 were a Cold War, conscription-era mass force being rapidly shrunk from post‑1945 peaks and organised around infantry, cavalry and large tank formations; by 2025 they a...
Across the last decade overall homicide trends and knife-specific homicide trends have moved differently in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom: the US shows high overall homicide rates d...
The UK’s “one in, one out” pilot returns agreement with France is operating but showing strains: governments report about 94–113 people returned to France and roughly 57 admitted to the UK under the r...
Digital ID systems can create powerful new tools for identification that many governments and vendors say improve convenience, security and fraud prevention (Trinsic tracking 48 schemes covering ~177M...
UK government plans make the new digital ID mandatory for specific uses — most clearly for right-to-work checks by the end of this Parliament — while promising the system will be optional for many oth...
Between 2010 and 2020 the United Kingdom was a consistent net contributor to the EU budget, with typical annual net contributions in the range of roughly £5–11 billion depending on the calculation met...
Settled status (Indefinite Leave to Remain under the EU Settlement Scheme) gives EU/EEA/Swiss nationals who were resident in the UK by 31 December 2020 the right to live and work in the UK indefinitel...
After a formal NATO invitation to begin accession talks, the remaining steps are: the invited government formally accepts NATO obligations in a letter of intent; NATO members and the invitee conduct a...
The publicly available sources in this set do not provide a complete year-by-year table of cumulative U.S. military aid to Ukraine dating back to 2014; however, several official summaries give cumulat...
UK asylum accommodation typically does not include in‑room Wi‑Fi; research and charity reports say Wi‑Fi is often absent or limited to communal spaces and one gigabyte of mobile data can cost up to 10...
There is no single “average sentence” for people convicted of Twitter/X‑related offences in the UK; available reporting shows a wide range from community orders and suspended sentences up to multi‑yea...
Government announcements in September 2025 say a new UK digital ID will become mandatory for right-to-work checks “by the end of this Parliament” (i.e., the scheme is to be rolled out before the next ...
Self-employed individuals are not explicitly targeted by the Companies House identity-verification deadlines; Companies House is phasing mandatory ID checks for directors and people with significant c...
Recent analyses converge on two facts: the Home Office’s immigration-related costs rose sharply around 2022–24 and the government both added targeted funding and repeatedly under‑estimated those costs...