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False. Both the Metropolitan Police and the Community Security Trust have confirmed that this is not true. Claims last week that “British Jews” have been asked to stay at home due to “Pro-Palestine ...
Signs warning people not to walk their dogs in an “Islamic area” are becoming more common in London and the UK. The sign in question was seen in the London borough of Tower Hamlets in 2014. We’ve ...
This isn’t the case. A petition on the UK Government and Parliament website has just over three million signatures, but there is no live petition with six million signatures. Claims that a petition ...
A picture shows General John Pagri, Commander of the Special Tasks Battalion in the US army, who was recently killed in the Gaza Strip. There’s no evidence that any US army general has recently been ...
False. Cadbury says all its Easter shell eggs sold in the UK reference Easter on their packaging. Some of the eggs shown in social media posts making this claim are made by Nestlé, however, which does ...
The government is spending an extra £31 billion every year in this parliament to protect the state pension triple lock. This is potentially misleading. Annual spending on the state pension is ...
While the government has not introduced legislation in time for the 36th anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy, as the Prime Minister promised at the 2024 Labour party conference, it has committed ...
The government says legislation to achieve this pledge—the Draft Conversion Practices Bill—will be brought forward in this session of Parliament, but it has not yet been published and we don’t know ...
On Saturday, Parliament passed an emergency law giving the government powers to intervene in the British Steel plant at Scunthorpe, which was reportedly in danger of being closed by its Chinese owners ...
A screenshot shows the front page of the Daily Mail published on 4 January, which featured a picture of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Jimmy Savile together. The front page has been edited to ...
A sign shared on Facebook appeared in Tower Hamlets in 2014—we’ve seen no recent reports of the same or similar signs appearing in London or elsewhere in the UK. News bulletins on Radio 2, Radio 3 and ...