On 22 October, for the first time in years, the UK Parliament will debate legislation to legalise assisted dying for the terminally ill. Humanists UK, which campaigns for a right to die for those with terminal or incurable illnesses, fully supports the Assisted Dying Bill as a landmark step towards much-needed reform. It will be… Read more »
Leading rural organisations have reacted positively to the High Court’s dismissal of Wild Justice’s ‘speculative’ attempt to judicial review Defra’s most recent burning legislation in England. The attempted judicial review had sought to disrupt the Heather and Grass Burning (England) Regulations 2021 that bans heather burning on our most protected sites with peat of more… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Royal Bank of Scotland today reported a £24.1 billion loss – the greatest in UK corporate history. The bank, almost 70 per cent owned by the taxpayer, unveiled losses of £7.9 billion and writedowns of £16.2 billion, including those on badly-performing assets that formed part of the ill-advised ABN Amro takeover. The… Read more »
By Jonathan Moore The inspector of prisons has said HMP Styal is not able to meet the needs of its women prisoners, in a report out today. Dame Anne Owers said the needs of the substance-dependent population of the women’s prison were “extreme, complex and growing”. More than half of inmates said they had drug… Read more »
