Nope. Just tried.

Hard redirect to http://www.ukispcourtorders.co.uk/?JNI_URL=sci-hub.st/&JNI_R...

It's very nice of the UK Government to give a nice ordered list of pirate sites to use, as long as you take the 30 seconds required to change your DNS or use a VPN.

Now finally a tax payer funded service by the UK Government that we all can appreciate.

The URL contains "JNI_DSTIP=186.2.163.201&JNI_DSTPORT=80"; so maybe they're intercepting connections to this IP? Does explicitly adding https:// work?

Otherwise there's always Opera where you can just click the "VPN" button.

DNS-o-TLS and bouncing from a UK-region cloud-provider endpoint works for me. Any ISP blocking (internet censorship in the UK is more rife than you’d expect) is either done via hijacking DNS (which D-o-T mitigates) or if you’ve a consumer ISP connection.

And I can't reply to myself above, but after starting ExpressVPN I can access the sites fine.

Just changing your dns is fine.