News

Featured
BASC logo
New deer management orders could contravene human rights according to Scotland’s largest shooting organisation

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has written to the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, Lorna Slater, ahead of a major consultation into deer management changes in Scotland. The consultation which closes on Friday 29 March, raises six key themes around deer management changes. BASC has serious concerns regarding many… Read more »

Featured
Wales Humanists launches report on 100 years of disestablishment
Scottish Assisted Dying Bill Published – Humanists UK Comment

The Assisted Dying Bill Scotland has been published today. Humanists UK welcomes the bill and hopes it passes the next stage, but urges politicians not to ignore people like Tony Nicklinson, who would not be eligible for the proposed law. Currently, the Bill is limited to only people who are terminally ill, which has a legal… Read more »

Latest articles

News
The Labour leader is currently engaged in a lengthy policy review process
Cold water poured on Miliband’s ‘Clause 4’ moment

By Peter Wozniak Speculation that Ed Miliband’s plans to limit individual political donations would mean a weakening of Labour’s ties with trades unions has been doused. The Labour leader is currently engaging in a lengthy review of both its policy and funding arrangements. The party’s outgoing general secretary Ray Collins had implied Labour would call… Read more »

News
`Well, what a year!`
Clegg: We’ll prove them wrong

By politics.co.uk staff Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has offered a defiant new year’s message to party members. The deputy prime minister said his party was “delivering on every single one” of his party’s four manifesto priorities in a message composed while on a Christmas break in Spain. The coalition government’s junior party has been… Read more »