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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Northern Ireland’s blasphemy laws are unlikely to be repealed within the current session of the Assembly.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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By Ian Dunt Old wounds over Iraq, the Blair/Brown feud and the deficit were reopened today with the publication of Tony Blair’s memoirs. The former prime minister revealed that the power struggle between himself and then-chancellor Gordon Brown was worse than anyone had really understood at the time. Mr Brown lacked political instincts and was… Read more »
A Journey, by Tony Blair – hardback, out September 1st, £25, 718pp The former PM is witty, engaging and occasionally wise – but when the mask slips, the faults emerge. Review by Ian Dunt I remember going up in the London Eye for the first time, expecting to understand the arrangement of the capital better…. Read more »
