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Leading rural organisations have reacted positively to the High Court’s dismissal of Wild Justice’s ‘speculative’ attempt to judicial review Defra’s most recent burning legislation in England. The attempted judicial review had sought to disrupt the Heather and Grass Burning (England) Regulations 2021 that bans heather burning on our most protected sites with peat of more… Read more »
Northern Ireland’s blasphemy laws are unlikely to be repealed within the current session of the Assembly. Northern Ireland Humanists has been working with the relevant Ministers to bring forward repeal. The Department of Justice hoped to do so as part of a wider criminal law reform bill. But the Department of Justice has been unable… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson An incoming Conservative government would struggle to cope with the need for cooperation on defence issues, Paddy Ashdown has warned. The former Liberal Democrat leader made the comments as his commission on national security, which he co-chaired, published its final report in central London. The IPPR thinktank’s report says the Nato alliance… Read more »
Listen to IPPR’s national security commission co-chair Paddy Ashdown set the geopolitical agenda for the next few decades or so:
