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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 »
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On the day that it has released its ‘Stagnation Nation’ report at an event in Manchester, the left leaning think tank, the ‘Resolution Foundation’ think tank has suggested that the government needs to fill a £40 billion black hole in the UK’s public finances. Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme, Torsten Bell, the… Read more »
The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, is coming under mounting pressure to explain the government’s plans to deal with conditions at the asylum processing centre at Manston in Kent. Last week, the chief inspector of borders and immigration David Neal told MPs that the position at Manston was “unsafe, understaffed and wretched”. Currently 4,000 migrants are… Read more »
