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BASC amendments place the Wildlife Management and Muirburn Bill on a more ‘workable’ footing. BASC has claimed a significant victory in a crucial vote on the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill, which will ensure that grouse shooting continues unhampered. MSPs in the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee today, 7 February, entered day one of… Read more »
A UK Government petition to hold a parliamentary vote on assisted dying has passed 100,000 signatures in less than a month, and will be considered for Westminster Hall debate in Parliament. Humanists UK has welcomed the news, thanked members and supporters who have already signed and encouraged others to add their signatures. This petition calls for… Read more »
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This semi-confessional tale from a journalist stung by America’s mortgage mayhem is a distinctly sub-prime offering, finds Marcus Dubois. Busted – Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown, by Edmund L. Andrews W.W.Norton, £16.99, pp240 Review by Marcus Dubois Sub-prime. Voted word of the year by the linguists of the American Dialect Society in 2007, this… Read more »
This is not the Iraq inquiry the government wanted. It’s not really what the impatient public were after either. By Alex Stevenson Today Sir John Chilcot has outlined plans for a wide-ranging, largely public investigation into what lessons can be learned from Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war. When Gordon Brown announced plans for the… Read more »