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Leading rural organisations have reacted positively to the High Court’s dismissal of Wild Justice’s ‘speculative’ attempt to judicial review Defra’s most recent burning legislation in England. The attempted judicial review had sought to disrupt the Heather and Grass Burning (England) Regulations 2021 that bans heather burning on our most protected sites with peat of more… Read more »
Northern Ireland’s blasphemy laws are unlikely to be repealed within the current session of the Assembly. Northern Ireland Humanists has been working with the relevant Ministers to bring forward repeal. The Department of Justice hoped to do so as part of a wider criminal law reform bill. But the Department of Justice has been unable… Read more »
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Tony Blair has given his backing to general Richard Dannatt, the head of the army who called for British troops to leave Iraq “sometime soon”. The prime minister said Sir Richard’s view “is precisely the same as we’re all saying – our strategy is to pull out of Iraq when we’re done”. Mr Blair said… Read more »
Gordon Brown only backed the war in Iraq at the 11th hour, David Blunkett has claimed – and only because he feared being sacked as chancellor. The latest excerpt from the former home secretary’s memoirs, serialised in The Guardian, reveal major concerns in the cabinet about the way military action – and particularly plans to… Read more »
