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MPs have voted 379 to 137 to back an amendment to take abortion out of English and Welsh criminal law for women in relation to their own pregnancies. Humanists UK has long been alarmed about the growing number of women facing police investigations for this. Today it has expressed delight at MPs standing up for… Read more »
Humanists UK’s Chief Executive Andrew Copson has been awarded an OBE for ‘services to the non-religious’ in the UK national honours announced today. This is the first time an award has been made for services to the non-religious, who now represent a majority of the UK’s population. Andrew Copson has worked for Humanists UK since… Read more »
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By Jonathan Moore Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has called for a temporary nationalisation of Britain’s weakest banks. In a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) today he also said Britain had to change the way it ran its banks. “A few half-hearted apologies from the bankers and regulators, the architects of… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Ten specially designed stamps have been released by the Royal Mail to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Six stamps – released 150 years after the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection – celebrate Darwin’s achievements and his studies in zoology, botany,… Read more »
