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DMGT — the Daily Mail’s owner — has agreed a roughly £500m ($650m) deal to buy the Telegraph titles, a move that would consolidate major right‑leaning British titles under one corporate roof . Critics...
This season’s early UK data show the 2025/26 vaccine is providing strong protection in children (estimated 70–75% effective at preventing hospital attendance for ages 2–17) and more modest protection ...
Media sources disagree about George Farmer’s birthdate: Wikipedia’s businessman profile lists 7 July 1990 , Companies House/UK-government references reported in coverage place his birthday in July 199...
Available reporting and inquiries show , but national data is incomplete because ethnicity was not recorded in most investigations, leaving firm, nationwide prevalence conclusions unsupported. Major r...
Asylum seekers in the UK are not automatically the same as "illegal immigrants": seeking asylum is a legal right under the 1951 Refugee Convention and UK law, and the status of a person depends on whe...
Reporting by The Times and parliamentary materials put UK arrests for certain online communications at about 12,000 in 2023 — roughly “more than 30 arrests a day” — a figure reproduced across media an...
The available reporting shows the UK government is proposing a national digital ID that will be used for right-to-work and other checks, but ministers and civil‑liberties groups disagree sharply on wh...
Government documents and independent overviews show that direct spending on immigration enforcement is a small fraction of total UK government outlays — on the order of a few tenths of a percent. The ...
Refusal of a government digital ID can be legally voluntary in some proposals but carry practical costs: UK government plans propose making digital ID mandatory for “right to work” checks by 2029, whi...
UK official systems do not provide a straightforward, nationally comparable statistic that directly contrasts crime rates of migrants versus native-born people, so public claims vary widely in accurac...
Available reporting shows the UK government does not routinely give asylum seekers free iPhones or other smartphones as part of standard asylum support; phones were provided as a temporary Covid-era m...
The UK government announced on 26 September 2025 that a national digital ID will be rolled out and will be mandatory for Right to Work checks by the end of the current Parliament (no later than 2029) ...
The UK government has proposed a national digital ID (the “Brit Card”) to be introduced before the end of this Parliament, tied to work-rights and government services; a petition against mandatory dig...
The evidence assembled from the provided analyses shows ; instead, reporting and congressional debate have focused on transparency and the potential contents of unredacted records. Multiple analyses n...
Early real-world data from the UK indicate the 2025–26 vaccine is reducing hospital attendance for pediatric H3N2 cases by about 70–75% and by roughly 30–40% in adults, even as a drifted H3N2 “subclad...
Palantir has active, documented partnerships with U.S. federal agencies that enable —notably U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—while Palantir has publicly distanced itself from the UK gov...
Early real-world data from the UK show the 2025–26 vaccine is reducing hospital attendance for children aged 2–17 by roughly 70–75% and protecting adults at substantially lower levels—about 30–40% aga...
Zionism is a modern Jewish nationalist movement whose central historic aim was to create and sustain a Jewish homeland in Palestine — a goal largely realized with the 1948 creation of the State of Isr...
UK banks and fintechs have been offering optional carbon-footprint estimators that link spending to emissions since at least 2021; NatWest launched an in‑app tracker in November 2021 that matches anon...
Between 1920 and 1945 the population of Palestine rose substantially: contemporaneous British counts put the total at about 757,182 in the 1922 census and at roughly 1,035,154 (or 1,035,821 in some re...