I don’t know about you, but the terrifying knife attack a week ago on an LNER train near Peterborough really shook me.
News
In this week’s budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has announced changes to taxation that CARE have been calling for. Increases in tax on gambling, and the removal of the…
Gambling
The House of Lords has been given another 10 days to discuss the Leadbeater Bill on assisted suicide after fears they would run out of time. During the current committee stage peers…
Assisted Suicide
The Scottish Government is facing growing criticism after an expert review recommended allowing abortions up to birth, including for reasons such as the baby’s sex.
Abortion
Freedom of Speech
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, said that people should not “blindly trust” everything that artificial intelligence tools tell them.
Artificial Intelligence
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has attracted over 940 amendments ahead of its committee stage in the House of Lords — a record number for a private member’s bill.…
Assisted Suicide
Following a review commissioned earlier in the year, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are likely to ban transgender athletes from competing in all women’s events.
Transgender
An amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill will allow “authorised testers” to test artificial intelligence platforms to ensure that they cannot create images of child sexual abuse.
Artificial Intelligence
A church leader has been approached by the police to warn him that Bible verses printed on his campervan “could be seen as hate speech”.
Freedom of Speech
Joining together with Restore Glasgow (an anti-human trafficking group) and Evangelical Alliance Scotland, we decided to publicly back Ash Regan MSP’s ‘Unbuyable’ Bill by calling the Church together in Glasgow to hear…
Sexual Exploitation
The number of possible victims of modern slavery referred to the Home Office has hit a record high. In the three months to September there were more than 6,400 referrals, representing a…
Modern Slavery