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The Government has today brought forward a Bill to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Humanists UK has welcomed this move as long overdue reform. But it has also said that the next step should be to remove the 26 Church of England bishops, known as the Lords Spiritual, who also have an automatic right… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has urged the Scottish Government to resist introducing further regulation, in response to a proposed new ‘Natural Environment Bill’ in Scotland. The commitment to the new bill was included in a document outlining the Scottish Government’s policy and legislative plans for the year ahead, launched today by… Read more »
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The worldwide Muslim protests against a film insulting the Prophet Mohammed reached London yesterday, when up to 1,500 people demonstrated outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square.
After the death of US ambassador Christopher Stevens, the bleak outlook in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan forces us to ask again: was it really worth it?
