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The BBC’s Panorama programme spliced together two parts of Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 speech that were roughly 50–55 minutes apart, producing a clip that suggested he said, in sequence, “We’re going ...
Yes — during the mid-17th century the Puritan-dominated Parliament formally outlawed public and many domestic Christmas festivities in England (and the realms it then controlled), replacing feast days...
Victor (Nathaniel Mayer) Rothschild did indeed press the UK Parliament in 1946 to expand pasteurization of milk; he spoke about it in the House of Lords and the government accepted the motion . Scient...
Available reporting shows no single, universally accepted total for “farm murders in South Africa in 2024.” Government police statistics cited in media say authorities recorded very few farm murders i...
London’s crime picture in 2025 is mixed: some headline measures—like homicides and several knife‑crime indicators—have fallen sharply, while other categories (notably theft and overall recorded offenc...
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...
Nigel Farage was a central, high-profile campaigner for Brexit who led UKIP during its rise and later founded the Brexit Party, helping to mainstream Euroscepticism and mobilize voters for the Leave c...
Keir Starmer was not ejected from Parliament in 2024; reporting instead documents disciplinary action he took against seven Labour MPs who defied the party whip by supporting an amendment to scrap the...
Declassified UK’s investigations identify roughly 180 of 650 MPs in the last parliament as having accepted funding, hospitality or trips from pro‑Israel organisations, individuals or Israeli state bod...
The two organisations that stand out as having the largest memberships and clearest reach into Westminster are Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) and Labour Friends of Israel (LFI); CFI has been des...
Sharia is not a separate, state-enforced legal system in Australia and Australian law — statutes and common law enacted by Parliament — prevails; government statements and fact‑checks confirm there is...
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...
Arrest figures for people "supporting Palestine" vary widely by country, protest and definition: reported UK arrests tied to support for the proscribed group Palestine Action total at least 2,489 as o...
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...
The latest available reporting indicates that the EU’s draft Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (the so-called “Chat Control” file) has moved away from breaking end‑to‑end encryption in some versions but s...
No Alberta provincial government has ever passed a legal declaration of independence from Canada; recent 2024–2025 political moves and citizen initiatives pressed the question into public view but sto...
UK courts have imposed a range of penalties for convictions arising from tweets and other social media posts: custodial sentences (including both immediate prison terms and suspended prison sentences)...
Current reporting shows the EU’s so‑called “Chat Control 2.0” debate shifted in late‑2025 from mandatory client‑side scanning toward a softer, council‑level text that removes an explicit duty to break...
Justice Minister and Attorney General Sean Fraser introduced Bill C-9, the “Combatting Hate Act,” on Sept. 19, 2025, as a Liberal government bill to amend the Criminal Code to address hate propaganda,...
There is no single, verifiable figure for how many Muslim councillors serve in England as of 2025 in the provided source set; none of the nine analyzed items gives a national count or a comprehensive ...