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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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Comment: On the front line with student protestors

There’s always something exciting about the police losing control. By Ian Dunt There’s no point pretending otherwise. It’s rare and dramatic and it’s hard to quell that frisson of excitement, that sense that something out of the ordinary is happening and you are there to witness it. For plenty of the students at today’s protest,… Read more »

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Sketch: The siege of Millbank

…And how the student protest shot itself in the foot. By Peter Wozniak My, how it all went horribly wrong. What had started as a huge (and surprisingly coherent) outpouring of rational ill-feeling towards the raising of tuition fees became something resembling nothing so much as a medieval siege. Tonight the news is dominated by… Read more »