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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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The live blog for people who don’t understand economics: Follow every second of George Osborne’s autumn statement and try to work out what austerity is, what a fiscal rule is, whether the deficit will fall as a percentage of GDP and so other puzzles.
Today even chancellor George Osborne, that master political operator, is only partially able to conceal the true extent of the fix he – and, as a direct result, you – are in in his autumn statement 2012.