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The Government has today brought forward a Bill to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Humanists UK has welcomed this move as long overdue reform. But it has also said that the next step should be to remove the 26 Church of England bishops, known as the Lords Spiritual, who also have an automatic right… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has urged the Scottish Government to resist introducing further regulation, in response to a proposed new ‘Natural Environment Bill’ in Scotland. The commitment to the new bill was included in a document outlining the Scottish Government’s policy and legislative plans for the year ahead, launched today by… Read more »
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There’s no escaping that the general election result is a body blow to the Conservatives. Thousands of words have been penned dissecting the reasons why, but weeks before the final result, the party faithful were already engaged in frenzied debate about how best to revive its fortunes. The bottom line is this: if Conservative Campaign… Read more »
After a night of covering ‘earthquake’ and ‘unprecedented’ results, BBC NI presenter Mark Carruthers struggled to find the words to depict the news from North Antrim as dawn broke on the Friday morning. “Whatever is bigger than seismic”, he offered. The 2024 election had already exhausted the stores of hyperbole. And so we watched images… Read more »
