United Kingdom
As per usual, the proposed icon is the [Union Jack](https://cdn.britannica.com/w:690,h:388,c:crop/25/4825-050-977D8C5E/Flag-United-Kingdom.jpg). Proposed background image is [this iconic image of Tower Bridge](https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.0ae9d35010aa46d74f3d3f6de4ceea13?rik=EJZxZkQ0UWnSvQ&pid=ImgRaw&r=0). [@admin@exploding-heads.com](https://exploding-heads.com/u/admin)
A weekly speed dating evening for lesbians in the Bloomsbury district of London has become a target of woke activists after discovering that it prohibited biological males from attending the event. Speaking to the Mail on Sunday, the founder of the speed dating event, Jenny Watson, said that she was forced to enact a ban on transgender people from attending last year after a man came to the pub wearing a purple latex costume while having “an erection”. “Another time, a trans woman came into the female toilet and pushed their body at a woman who was upset and told me after. It got me thinking that this isn’t fair on women,” Watson explained. “Transgender individuals deserve respect. But there is a need for protection of sex-segregated spaces for lesbian women.”
“She said ‘I think she’s a lesbian like nanna Julie,'” Snow recounts, noting that the female officer had short blonde hair. “I just felt a jolt on my back… the officer had launcher herself in my home at me and Amanda. She was grabbing her.” “She was crying and saying sorry to the police woman. That’s when I grabbed my phone and started recording.” In terrifying footage twice-removed by TikTok, Amanda is heard screaming and crying as multiple West Yorkshire Police officers surround the cupboard she had backed herself into for safety. “You’re going to remove her for what? Because she said the word lesbian? Her nana is a lesbian, she’s married to a woman. She’s not homophobic!”
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The UK government quietly released the official figures for Covid deaths in 2022. The data reveals that the triple+ vaccinated population accounted for 92% of Covid-19 deaths throughout the entirety of 2022. This means we’ve gone from 76.5% of Covid deaths being among the vaccinated and 23.5% of deaths being among the unvaccinated in 2021, to 94% of Covid deaths being among the vaccinated and just 6% of deaths being among the unvaccinated in 2022.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/634500 > “I think the legislation should go further and limit banks to closing accounts only when there is clear evidence of criminal activity.” > > There have also been suggestions that the government may require banks to pledge to protect the principle of freedom of expression or face having their licence to lend in Britain revoked.
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Sex Matters purports to contribute meaningful dialogue in the public sphere. Its mission lies in fostering discussions around biological sex differences and challenges the prevalent gender ideology.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/622228 > “Live facial recognition is a dystopian mass surveillance tool that turns innocent members of the public into walking ID cards,” > > Across seven months, thirteen deployments, hundreds of officer hours, and over half a million faces scanned in 2023, police have made just three arrests from their use of this intrusive and expensive mass surveillance tool… Rather than promote its use, the Government should follow other liberal democracies around the world that are legislating to ban this Orwellian technology from public spaces.
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/605590 > Previously, there was no minimum age for referral and children as young as three were treated by the Tavistock. On average, three children aged under seven were being referred every month.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/565522 > "Are we not allowed to breast feed but you are allowed to celebrate a woman having breasts removed for reasons of social contagion and vanity? It’s absolutely bonkers,” Bindel urged adding “What’s really scary about it is the actual mastectomy scars are seen as a badge of honour, as cool.” > > “I want to see the surgeons, scientists, those who advocate and profiteer from healthy breast removal criminalised.” > > "Companies who want to appeal to young people are presenting trans as cool,” she continued, adding “This is being pushed on children as if having a major operation is just the same as changing your clothes.” > >
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/565514 > Costa Coffee is owned by Coca-Cola. > > Coke is a very woke company
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/538569 > Even the rich and powerful kept the fact they had been victims of the United Kingdom debanking scandal until now, with Brexiteer-turned-bank reform campaigner Nigel Farage saying a combination of shame and fear that going public could destroy their credit rating meant until now many had suffered in silence.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/424427 > Revealing that he still doesn’t have a new personal and business bank account and that he’s been rejected for an account at ten other UK banks, Mr Farage warned the wider UK banking sector, which he said all shared Natwest’s culture, but simply hadn’t been exposed yet. He said: “I would address my comments to the ten banks who have thus far refused to have me as a customer, think again. > > “This has happened to NatWest and unless you change your culture, change your views, get rid of your prejudice over Brexit and other issues”, controversy would also be coming their way, he warned.
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Property tycoon Asif Aziz has been granted permission to convert an iconic building in central London into a three-story mosque. Westminster Council has approved a planning application submitted by a foundation owned by Aziz for the Islamic prayer center inside the Trocadero, a former exhibition and entertainment complex on Coventry Street. The mosque will have capacity for 390 worshipers, down considerably from the 1,000-capacity initially proposed back in 2020, which was vehemently opposed by local residents.
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Britain’s beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a damaging political blow on Friday as voters rejected his party in two parliamentary elections it could ordinarily have expected to win. The Conservative Party lost to the resurgent Labour Party in Selby and Ainsty, a region in the north of England where the Sunak’s party had enjoyed a commanding majority. A second seat, Somerton and Frome, was won by the Liberal Democrats, a centrist party. The Conservatives just managed to hold on to a third seat in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, the constituency held by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson until his resignation from parliament last month, although Labour significantly grew its share of the vote. The results will put Sunak’s leadership under pressure, and suggest his government is on course for an electoral defeat at the next general election, expected next year. Sunak has struggled to reverse the Conservatives’ plummeting fortunes in the nine months he has held office; a series of scandals, a stuttering economy and a decline in Britain’s public services have left his party deeply unpopular. But the results indicate that the opposition Labour Party, which under the leadership of Keir Starmer is on course to clinch power when Sunak calls a general election. By law, a general election must take place by January 2025. Most observers think Sunak will call it in the fall of 2024, if not before, to avoid trying to persuade voters to cast their ballots in the middle of winter. Thursday’s three by-elections provided the sternest mid-term test yet for Sunak, who took power after Liz Truss’s shambolic six-week premiership last fall.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/314386 > The focus on small nuclear reactors is part of the country’s efforts to produce more zero-emission energy domestically.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/263402 > Refinitiv, which monitors creditworthiness, can examine social media posts made by any of us on Facebook or elsewhere. If this situation is left unchecked, we will sleepwalk towards a China-style social credit system in which only those with the “correct” views are allowed to fully participate in society.”
Students are being “ripped off” by universities offering bad degrees, Rishi Sunak warns as he unveils a crackdown on low-quality courses. Writing exclusively for The Telegraph, the Prime Minister says too many young people are being sold a “false dream” that going to university will give them the skills they need to get a “decent job”. As part of a government plan to improve standards, the universities watchdog will for the first time take future salaries into account when judging if a course is failing participants. It will be able to cap student numbers for courses where a high proportion of graduates do not go on to a professional job or further education. Top fees for many foundation courses will also be reduced amid fears students taking them are being used as “cash cows”. The moves are part of a wider drive by successive Conservative governments to make sure university students are getting their money’s worth after rises in tuition fees.
When asked about the remarks at a later press conference, Mr Zelensky said: “Let him write to me [about] how else I should express my words of gratitude or we could get up in the morning and express our words of gratitude to the minister.” He urged Oleksiy Reznikov, Ukraine’s defence minister, who was sitting in the audience, to call Mr Wallace to find out more about his concerns. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also distanced himself from Mr Wallace’s comments, insisting Ukraine had always been grateful for Britain’s support. Mr Sunak said Mr Zelensky had “repeatedly expressed his gratitude to me and to the British people and indeed other allies”. https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fworld-news%2F2023%2F07%2F12%2Fben-wallace-volodymyr-zelensky-ukraine-grateful-amazon%2F
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/198332 > During his catastrophic BBC interview with Emily Maitlis four years ago, the Prince insisted the ‘sole purpose’ of visiting Epstein in December 2010 was to break off their friendship because of the billionaire’s 18-month jail sentence for child prostitution offences.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/193626 > The meeting, which was open to over 200 invited MPs and peers, journalists, and Hong Kong dissidents — some of whom covered their faces out of safety concerns — was intended to discuss the current situation in the former British colony,
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/188660 > Under the interpretation put forward by police, parents who refuse to use the alternative pronouns for their children or refuse to pay for their transitioning could be criminally prosecuted.
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/187019 > “It seems unduly lenient. It’s nothing to do with the person being transgender, it’s the nature of the offences…
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/187010 > The “well-known presenter” is accused of paying more than £35,000 (over $44,000) in exchange for sexually explicit photographs from the teenager, who was reportedly 17-years-old when the exchange allegedly occurred in 2020, according to The Sun. The teenager allegedly “used the cash to fund a crack habit.” > > The family of the teenager complained to the BBC about the matter May 19, appealing to the corporation to make the broadcaster “stop sending the cash,” according to the news report. The family also reportedly “wanted no payment” from The Sun for the story.
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/184240 > Put an end to “boy-girl” classroom seating as it could “distress” trans or non-binary students.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/178401 > The transgenderism-critical parents group Our Duty — which represents over 2,000 parents who are concerned about children being encouraged into medically transitioning their gender — has been refused a new account at the Metro Bank.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/178379 > The government adviser set out his claim of obedience through behavioural interventions, even suggesting the nation’s prior experience made it “much easier to now imagine” the population would accept future local restrictions.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/173269 > It reveals that many Members of Parliament are deliberately working to manipulate public perceptions to prevent the question of whether the UK should have imposed a lockdown from ever being asked—and it begs the troubling question of just how many of these MPs are not mere incompetents, but rather knowing accomplices to the crime. > > To be frank, it evidences just how vast the communist conspiracy which may have given birth to Western lockdowns may in fact be.
An airman for the Special Forces could be sacked after he was caught taking drugs during an 'unheard of' crackdown in an elite unit which flies Chinook helicopters. Compulsory testing teams reportedly circled in on the RAF Special Forces Flight, 7 Squadron three separate times in just three weeks, which led to the airman's drug taking being discovered. The RAF has a zero tolerance policy towards drugs, so he is likely to be booted off the force, sources were reported to have claimed.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/170708 > The Treasury is reportedly set to publish requirements demanding banks uphold principles of freedom of speech, in addition to mandates that lenders reveal their reasoning for closing an account. Should they fail to abide by such rules, regulators will be able to take punitive action against the banks.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/165726 > > BREAKING: Victim Families Testify Yesterday at UK House of Commons on Covid-era Policy of Involuntarily State Euthanasia Using Death-Row Drug Midazolam with Morphine > > Listen now (135 min) | Raw Untreated Audio File Provided Free - A Radical Dispatch >