Middle East
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is delighted to announce a significant milestone for its BASC to School programme, having now engaged with 50,000 school children across the UK in 2024. This achievement takes BASC’s total engagement since 2021 to an impressive 127,261 schoolchildren and young people. The landmark highlights the programme’s growing… Read more »
A new multi-level regression and post-stratification (MRP) poll of 7,000 British adults has shown that in every constituency bar one, most people support legalising assisted dying for the terminally ill and incurably suffering. Humanists UK commissioned the poll from Electoral Calculus, and is releasing it to coincide with Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill…. Read more »
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Prime minister Gordon Brown is reportedly to appoint his own Middle East envoy, leading to speculation that he may be attempting to distance himself from similar work carried out by his predecessor Tony Blair. Michael Williams, who currently works as the United Nations’ (UN) special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, is expected to… Read more »
The government today announced a massive increase in defence spending, with an additional £7.7 billion being channeled into the Ministry of Defence (MoD) by 2011. The increase in funds comes as MPs and military strategists warn Britain’s military capacity is reaching breaking point under the burden of military engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Earlier this… Read more »
