LOCAL GOOGLE - INFURIATING

OK, 10 points goes to the person who can work out how to actually get to www.google.com from the UK. It's crazy.Any variation on typing in www.google.com actually re-directs me to the www.google.co.uk website. This includes:

1. Typing www.google.com into my browser
2. Searching for Google.com and clicking on the google results and still getting re-directed
3. Starting 'safe browsing' - i.e. supposedly anonymous browsing and trying the above.

You can't change any of this through your search settings.

A little research has found that it's actually google doing this at their end, when they see my IP address, so the only way to get around it seemingly is to spoof your IP address. Or, to use their new secure version of Google search which is on https://www.google.com