BASC’s head of firearms Bill Harriman has written to the Chief Constable of West Mercia Police to challenge its decision to make all applications for firearms and shotgun certificates online only. The force announced this week that from 1 May printed applications would no longer be accepted. In a letter to Chief Constable Alex Murray,… Read more »
Humanists UK has reacted to news that the Government is proposing to allow new state schools to discriminate in 100% of their places, condemning the move and calling instead for an end to all discrimination in the state school system. Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson said: ‘The proposal to allow 100% religious discrimination in… Read more »
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Israel is failing in its obligations towards the health and welfare of the Palestinian population, an influential group of MPs has said. The MPs also called for diplomats to use the Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas as an opportunity to ease restrictions imposed by Israel on Gaza’s borders. Israeli restrictions have resulted in shortages… Read more »
MPs should be banned from getting second jobs on top of their political obligations, the coordinator of Gordon Brown’s leadership campaign has said. Chris Leslie, who left the House of Commons after being narrowly defeated by Conservative Philip Davies in 2005, said MPs needed to take radical steps to combat the growing image of them… Read more »
