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NI’s shooting and countryside organisations meet PSNI firearms branch staff

Northern Ireland’s shooting and countryside organisations recently met with Police Service of Northern Ireland Firearms and Explosives Branch (PSNI FEB) staff and senior officials from the Department of Justice (DoJ) in Belfast. Formed in May 2021, the Northern Ireland Firearms Representative Group (NIFRG) is an umbrella group which brings together 10 national and local shooting and… Read more »

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Humanists UK backs bill for Church of England disestablishment

Humanists UK has welcomed the announcement of a Private Members’ Bill which would disestablish the Church of England and separate church and state. Currently the Church of England is the official state religion of England, and the monarch is both the head of state and the head of the Church of England. The practice of… Read more »

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Interview: Dennis Skinner

So who is going to win tonight? Obama. He’s a first class candidate, and I’ve got no doubt at all he’s going be the next president. From an organisational point of view his team knew what they were up to early on. What makes Barack Obama better than John McCain? Most of the American victors… Read more »

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Ex-MP Flight blames Brown for banking crisis

Former Tory MP Howard Flight says the banking crisis was made “inevitable” by Gordon Brown’s Bank of England reforms in 1997. In a report for the Centre for Policy Studies thinktank he describes the government’s instruction to the Bank to meet a 2.5 per cent retail price inflation measurement as “deeply flawed”. It led to… Read more »