News
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 »
Latest articles
Bob Diamond refused to name the government minister who allegedly put pressure on Barclays to ‘lowball’ its Libor rating during a gruelling appearance before MPs on the Treasury committee today.
The tension and speculation over who is to blame over the rate-rigging Barclays scandal with the banks and Bank of England heated up today as the chancellor, George Osborne claimed his predecessors, Gordon Brown’s Labour government and minister Ed Balls were “clearly involved”.
