The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe.
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Can certain broadcast frequencies be used for mind control?
I was reading an article last night on the communications system used by UK police. They use earpieces and there is skepticism about how they could be used to control the police or subdue them.
Is this possible?
Microwave weapons that turn people…
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Is participating in competitive sport harmful to young children?
There is a proposal for all primary school children (ages 4 to 11) in England to play competitive team sports:
Competitive team sports will be made compulsory for all primary age children, David Cameron said on Saturday, after he criticised schools…
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Do 1 in 4 of us experience mental health problems each year?
I have seen this quote before but today I received an internal company email with this quote.
The ratio is also cited on page 7 of this 2014 report by Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London:
In any given year, an estimated 1 in 4 individuals will…
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Why does PHE data indicate higher death numbers for vaccinated than unvaccinated persons?
INTRODUCTION:
The Public Health England technical briefings are technical documents indicating specific statistics and their breakdowns regarding…
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Has the Labour Party in Tottenham required in-home visits for Jews to join, at least in the instances described below?
In this tweet, Stephen Canning, a representative of Bocking, Essex is claiming that 25 Jewish applicants had their membership request into Labour pended dependent upon a home visit.
STAGGERING: If you’re a Jew and want to become a Labour member in…
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Did an Irish teen accidentally fire a bottle rocket at Queen Elizabeth IIs Motorcade during her 1977 Silver Jubilee visit to the Isle of Man?
I just came across this screenshot of a Tumblr conversation on Twitter:
In the story, the author describes how his father took part of a scouting jamboree on the Isle of Man in 1977 and set off some bottle rockets. One of the bottle rockets went…
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Is this "the largest single donation to Oxford University since the Renaissance"?
The University of Oxford recently announced a £150 million donation from Stephen Schwartzmann, which their press release (PDF) prominently calls "the largest single donation to Oxford University since the Renaissance".
This claim has been repeated…
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Does the UK subsidise fossil fuels more than other European countries?
According to a recent report in the Guardian the UK has much higher subsidies on fossil fuels than other European countries (presumably, it is the Guardian, this is a very bad thing). They report:
The UK leads the European Union in giving subsidies…
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Did the husbands of Theresa May and Victoria Atkins (then British PM and drugs minister) profit from the sale of medicinal cannabis?
As read in this link:
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The cannabis for Epidiolex is being provided from a 45-acre cannabis farm in the UK operated by British Sugar, whose links to Tory ministers were exposed in February when it was reported that Managing Director of British…
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Did Theresa May say that girls' having male role models starts to curb the promotion of lesbianism in schools?
Kevin Cummins, a London-based photographer, recently tweeted this image:
The concern with the image is the text
Curbing the promotion of lesbianism in Merton's schools starts with girls having male role models in their lives.
No citation is…
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Did Massachusetts assume "a right to treat the Indians on the footing of Canaanites or Amelekites"?
According to the 1855 The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay page 13:
the first planters of the state of Massachusetts expressly assumed for themselves a right to treat the Indians on the footing of Canaanites or Amelekites
This book cites to George…
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Is it true that Prince Charles can be bypassed in the line of succession?
This source posits that the succession to the British throne is ultimately in the hands of the Parliament, not the queen or royal family.
The news source considers an important counter argument to bypass Prince Charles in the succession, that even…
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Is there a significant number of people who claim benefits when they could work instead?
The Home Secretary of the United Kingdom Suella Braverman recently claimed that there is a "stubborn core of our population that sees welfare as the go-to option [and] is not motivated... to get out and work" as well as there being "far too many…
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Is the UK experiencing wage growth for people on low incomes?
In a TV interview with Andrew Marr on 3 Oct 2021, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed that UK wages were growing for people on low incomes. The interviewer (Marr) said that wasn't true - Johnson insisted that it was.
Who was right?
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Is the “climate change” responsible for the 2018 European heatwave?
The following article Why is Europe going through a heatwave? as well as other articles on the current heatwave in Europe and the British Isles tend to suggest that:
The heatwaves in the northern hemisphere are undoubtedly linked to global warming,…
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