Yesterday the Government announced proposals to introduce outdoor civil marriages at approved premises on a permanent basis and to also introduce outdoor religious marriages, but failed to make any similar reforms to legally recognise humanist marriages. Humanists UK has urged the Government to act now to legally recognise humanist marriages without delay. Humanists UK Chief… Read more »
Yesterday, the Government published its long-awaited proposals on reforming the Human Rights Act. If passed into law, these reforms will have a devastating impact on the fundamental rights of humanists. The Government has announced it wants to reform section 3 of the Act to severely curtail the ability of public authorities and the courts to ‘read… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff The prime minister must start to “tell it straight” about public spending or face losing business confidence, Ken Clarke will say in a speech tonight. The shadow business secretary will denounce Gordon Brown for failing to undertake a spending review and thereby “trying to hide the scale of the crisis”. Spending reviews… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Unemployment rose to 2.38 million in the three months to May 2009, figures have shown today, as a report calls for the creation of a “more sustainable economy”. The Institute for Public Policy Research is concerned by the statistics, which appear to suggest unemployment is on course to hit three million by… Read more »
