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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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There needs to be a “complete renaissance” in the West’s foreign policy to defeat an “arc of extremism” stretching across the Middle East, Tony Blair has said. The prime minister said the conflicts in the Lebanon, in Iraq and Afghanistan could only be defeated by an “alliance of moderation”, made up of Christians, Arabs and… Read more »
The home secretary has pledged to challenge a Court of Appeal ruling which today said the control orders used on terror suspects broke human rights law. John Reid lost his attempt to overturn a previous court ruling that the restrictions placed on six terror suspects broke the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Three senior… Read more »
