Entity

Britain

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 6 domains, including World Wires, Weather Climate and Economic Dev.

As of 9 Oct 2026Last evidence 9 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Britain says consulate in Jerusalem to remain open as a UK mission

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Britain likely to expel Israeli diplomats if Jerusalem consulate closes, sources say

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Labour MP Emily Thornberry urges Britain to defy Israeli order to close Jerusalem consulate

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 3 events and claims involving Britain

What changed

  • Attention Britain has 141 mentions in tracked coverage: too few to measure a trend.
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Britain yet.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 8 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,729 documents · 241 publishers · 28% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 9 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.284: about 72% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 2 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Britain

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

United KingdomFranceBurnhamAndy BurnhamIsraelIranEnglandMiddle East
  • United Kingdom · 1,122 shared documents
  • France · 468 shared documents
  • Burnham · 462 shared documents
  • Andy Burnham · 436 shared documents
  • Israel · 434 shared documents
  • Iran · 411 shared documents
  • Europe · 402 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Continue Reading · 356 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • England · 349 shared documents
  • Middle East · 295 shared documents

Britain has 141 mentions in tracked coverage. That is too few to measure a trend. Watch Britain to hear when coverage grows, or request deeper coverage of Britain.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/879d6e8e3db20dbbff8fd987 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name britain.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Britain

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Britain says consulate in Jerusalem to remain open as a UK mission

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Britain likely to expel Israeli diplomats if Jerusalem consulate closes, sources say

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Labour MP Emily Thornberry urges Britain to defy Israeli order to close Jerusalem consulate

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Britain

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Britain

Entity.

Evidence
1,729 documents · 241 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 18 Jul 2026, last seen 9 Oct 2026
Measured
28% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
9 Oct 2026
13 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (3)

  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Britain, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article. Sparse topics can mix unrelated senses of the word.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Ask about BritainWatch Britain

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