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71,227 rapes last year. 7,801 in 2000. That’s nine times higher. You can feel it in every courthouse, every police station. Every number is a person whose world has been ripped apart. Only 5 percent of these cases even lead to a charge. Do the math: over 67,000 survivors last year got nothing. Nothing. Not …
$7.6B BITCOIN FRAUDSTER PLEADS GUILTY IN UK’S BIGGEST CRYPTO CASE Zhimin Qian, who ran a Ponzi scheme in China, fled with the loot, and laundered it into bitcoin, just pleaded guilty in London. Police found 61,000 bitcoin on her devices in a Hampstead mansion, now worth over £5bn, but didn’t clock it until three years …
“Americans should take note: the UK’s age verification rollout has been chaotic, invasive, and often useless. Reddit users report being locked out of forums, forced to upload IDs, and flagged by facial recognition tools that constantly misfire.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/americans-should-be-warned-lessons-reddits-chaotic-uk-age-verification-rollout Digital ID and biometric facial scans are rapidly becoming the new passports to the internet, driven by …
https://twitter.com/aigov_agent/status/1911965455343890553 🇬🇧UK BUSINESSES TO GOVT: “ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL US?” Trump’s tariffs and Finance Minister Rachel Reeves’ £25bn tax grab have tanked business confidence harder than Liz Truss’s economic speedrun. The Institute of Chartered Accountants said firms are drowning in costs, calling… https://t.co/LEmOdxtODg pic.twitter.com/GQsBpw88y7 — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 15, 2025 https://twitter.com/aigov_agent/status/1911978871051768259 China must …
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a 100-year partnership agreement with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday, part of a European show of support and promises to keep helping Ukraine endure in its nearly three-year war with Russia. The announcement came days before Donald Trump is sworn in as U.S. president …
It’s Toytown basic economics that the price of any commodity or service is determined by the relationship between supply and demand. The less there is of anything, the higher its price will be, depending on the level of demand. The greater the level of supply the lower the price, and thus the greater the demand and …
British police are advising Christian preachers to leave or they will be arrested because they could “cause harassment, alarm and distress”, which is a criminal offence. This is the UK's two-tier policing system in action. If you're a Christian preacher, you're fair game for arrest. But if you're a radical Islamist, you get a free …
Musk responded to not being invited “I don’t think anyone should go to the UK when they’re releasing convicted pedophiles in order to imprison people for social media posts.” Follow for the very latest political news! Story: https://t.co/FfyaKHpmVx — Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) September 26, 2024 https://twitter.com/_/status/1839207864449032451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Tess
Tweet reads: Tomorrow on @GBNEWS I’m going to expose the chilling far-left takeover of our justice system. Soon the bar will require all lawyers to ‘act in a way that advances equality, diversity and inclusion’. This is a NUCLEAR attack on freedom of speech and a fair and free legal system. The BSB, the UK’s …
Remember this MP in Scotland? Openly speaking against skin color and the Scottish people. This is how deep the mind virus has gone. The fact that this is even attempted by a politician, shows you how media captured and self loathing Caucasians have become in Western societies. pic.twitter.com/JxyAo9Kw0j — GnosisWolf (@GnosisWolf) August 9, 2024 The …
BREAKING: There has been a significant data breach involving the personal details of serving military personnel of UK – BBC https://t.co/NSf09prdEJ — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) May 6, 2024 BREAKING: China hacks UK’s Ministry of Defencepic.twitter.com/uVOTHUC3Me — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 6, 2024
Via Off-Guardian.org, Welcome to the UK where it’s now official government policy that you CAN’T publish “misinformation”, but The Guardian, the BBC, Disney and Netflix CAN… Yes, it’s true – the recently signed “Online Safety Act” brands the publication of “false information” a criminal offense punishable by up to a year in prison… …unless you’re an MSM outlet, when it’s totally …
by Guest Over the last few years the UK’s investment in gigantic offshore wind turbines, each the height of a skyscraper, has transformed electricity production displacing expensive fossil fuels. Last year wind power accounted for 29.2% of electricity production and the main source of electric power, from natural gas, produced 31.4%. Taken together fossil fuels, …
Grant Shapps, the UK’s new Defence Secretary, in his first major speech, has issued a stark warning about the nation’s defence posture, drawing parallels with the 1930s and cautioning against a repeat of history. In his address at Lancaster House, Shapps reflected on the post-Cold War era marked by optimism and the notion of a …
Whether it’s eating less meat or cycling instead of driving, humans can do many things to help prevent climate change. Unfortunately, breathing less isn’t one of them. That might be a problem, as a new study claims the gases in air exhaled from human lungs is fueling global warming. Methane and nitrous oxide in the …