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It's a little pissy of them ininit?

Works fine with UK VPN

Yup. Called it!

My VPN dumps me out to Toronto. I wonder if I can access UK sites from there.

Nope. Blocked me as well. But I am a Canadian Subject to the King! :)

Blocked from IL.

Blocked me as well, both my ISP and phone.

This is a fun technical challenge. Let's see.

VPN should work fine.
archive.org is apparently not indexing police.uk
There are bunch of proxies at https://spys.one/free-proxy-list/GB/ if you can get your browser to use one.
I could get a $5 Digital Ocean virtual server in the UK to be a transparent proxy, no browser config.
Some friend in UK to surf for you.
Control a remote browser, as used in QA testing: https://www.lambdatest.com/remote-browser or https://www.browserstack.com/live

Other ideas?

I just set VPN to Manchester and could get to it.

@RC2006 Which VPN service do you use?

Patrick says

could get a $5 Digital Ocean virtual server in the UK to be a transparent proxy, no browser config.
Some friend in UK to surf for you.

I use Ocean to run my Outline VPN.

Patrick says

RC2006 Which VPN service do you use?

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