BASC’s fighting fund, set up to fight the corner of members who have been victims of injustice, has successfully helped a member win costs against the police. The BASC member was awarded costs of £4,000 after a successful appeal against revocation of his certificate. BASC put Cheshire Constabulary on notice last year that costs would… Read more »
The Health and Social Care Committee’s report on assisted dying has been published today. Humanists UK has welcomed the evidence-based nature of the report, but expressed disappointment that the committee missed the opportunity to draw firm conclusions or recommend specific changes to the law. Although the report does not make any recommendations for or against legislative… Read more »
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By Ian Dunt The first trickle of British activists arrested on board the Turkish aid ships at the centre of an international crisis have finally begun returning to the UK. Israeli forces boarded the ships in a bid to prevent them breaking the blockade of Gaza on Monday, killing nine people on board and injuring… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Peter Mandelson, one of New Labour’s principle architects, has admitted his project has dead as he prepares to publish his memoirs. The former business secretary, who with Gordon Brown and Tony Blair created the political momentum which won Labour huge landslides in the 1997 and 2001 general elections, said he expected his… Read more »