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PCC Elections – BASC Needs You

Elections for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) will take place on 2 May 2024 and provide the perfect opportunity for the shooting community to find out where local Police and Crime Commissioner candidates stand on firearms licensing. BASC has launched a contact platform which allows you to search for your local PCC candidates by police… Read more »

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Assisted dying proposals in Jersey lodged – Humanists Comment

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 »

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Cutting deficit may not be helped by spending cuts
Backfiring cuts ‘might slow deficit reduction’

By politics.co.uk staff Harsh spending cuts could prove counterproductive to dealing with the deficit by lowering Treasury tax revenues, a thinktank has warned. The National Institute for Economic and Social Research (Niesr) suggested the economy could be hit by the plans contained in today’s comprehensive spending review, contrary to ministers’ expectations. George Osborne has argued… Read more »

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King raises prospects of further ‘quantitative easing’

By Peter Wozniak Mervyn King has intimated that the government may have to engage in more “emergency measures” to lubricate the economy, on the day that the comprehensive spending review is announced. Speaking yesterday, Mr King left open the prospect of the central bank engaging in another round of “quantitative easing”. He said the Bank… Read more »