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Humanists are celebrating a partial victory after the Department for Education announced it will keep restrictions on faith-based admissions criteria in new state-funded free schools in England – the so-called ‘50% cap’. However, Humanists UK, which led the campaign against these proposals, has said it is certain that new schools with 100% selective admissions policies will nevertheless… Read more »

MPs from the Labour Party, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, and Green Party have come together to back a new amendment to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to allow those with neurodegenerative illnesses to access assisted dying when they have twelve months or fewer to live, rather than six, as currently stipulated in the… Read more »
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The BBC must not be allowed to crowd out independent media companies as it expands its services, George Osborne warned today. The shadow chancellor cited the corporation’s plan to launch more local programmes as a one example, saying it could have a “ruinous” effect on local newspapers and radio. Mr Osborne also pointed to the… Read more »