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The legalisation of assisted dying in Jersey has taken another step as proposals have been lodged in the States Assembly. Channel Island Humanists welcomes the proposals, as another part of the British Isle moves closer to a compassionate end-of-life law. The proposals will allow residents of Jersey who are intolerably suffering from a physical, incurable condition… Read more »
BASC has welcomed the announcement by the Secretary of State for Defra of a new general licence (GL45) for the release of game birds (pheasant and red legged partridges) on or near certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in England. After the chaos of last year’s announcement at short notice, BASC has achieved significant improvements to… Read more »
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Government ministers and Conservatives MPs engaged in a four-hour parliamentary battle yesterday when they debated the state of the NHS. The Tories had called for the Commons debate to highlight the government’s failures in the health service, and called on MPs to back a motion condemning the loss of up to 20,000 hospital posts, cuts… Read more »
The face veil stops Muslim women taking their “full role” in society, a candidate for the Labour deputy leadership has said. Harriet Harman, the constitutional affairs minister, backed Jack Straw’s comments about the niqab and said she did not think women should wear it at all if they wanted equality with men. “How can you… Read more »
