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Humanists are celebrating a partial victory after the Department for Education announced it will keep restrictions on faith-based admissions criteria in new state-funded free schools in England – the so-called ‘50% cap’. However, Humanists UK, which led the campaign against these proposals, has said it is certain that new schools with 100% selective admissions policies will nevertheless… Read more »
MPs from the Labour Party, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, and Green Party have come together to back a new amendment to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to allow those with neurodegenerative illnesses to access assisted dying when they have twelve months or fewer to live, rather than six, as currently stipulated in the… Read more »
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This Christmas will be the second that the highly respected media owner Jimmy Lai will spend in jail in Hong Kong. The founder of Hong Kong’s once most popular newspaper, Apple Daily, Jimmy is the most high-profile figure to be arrested under the draconian National Security Law – a law passed in 2020 that effectively… Read more »
In the first half of 2021, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists found that only 40% of women offered a vaccine for Covid-19 had accepted it. The reason? They were waiting for further, or in some cases, more concrete evidence to reassure them that it was safe for them and their unborn baby. This… Read more »
