The High Court will consider a challenge to the laws requiring faith-based Christian religious education (RE) and collective worship in schools in Northern Ireland today. A non-religious family is mounting the legal challenge arguing the exclusively Christian nature of RE and worship violates their human rights. The case is being supported by Northern Ireland Humanists…. Read more »
Improvement to firearms licence condition welcomed by BASC Northern Ireland The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has welcomed the introduction of a firearms certificate condition that will allow the licence holder to shoot any lawful quarry on land where they have the authority to shoot. The condition known… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff England’s north-south divide will not be “shifted overnight”, Nick Clegg has said, after research revealed the north-east is the region with the greatest vulnerability to spending cuts. Research for the BBC by Experian identified Middlesbrough as the most vulnerable of 324 local authority areas, with Hartlepool, Sunderland and Redcar and Cleveland all… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Nick Clegg has tried to link the deficit reduction plan with a wider argument about the culture of political short-termism in government, saying the trend is a symptom of the failure of his generation. The deputy prime minister quoted John Stuart Mill, Oscar Wilde and American philosopher John Rawls in a bid… Read more »
