For around 15 years, party conferences were a regular part of my life.
Politics and elections
Tom Kendall
Tom Kendall
More than 70 MPs and Peers have written to the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, and the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, to ask them to “hit pause” on the plans to decriminalise abortions…
Abortion
Girlguiding, who oversees girl guides groups in the UK, has said that transgender children must leave the organisation by September. This follows their announcement in December that it would no longer be…
Transgender
Research by the domestic violence charity Refuge has found that artificial intelligence chatbots can aid abusers with stalking and harassing their victims, and with evading investigation by the police.
Artificial Intelligence
CARE Budget Response: Small positives, but families need more radical reform
Marriage and Family
Time to ban pimping websites says inquiry
Sexual Exploitation
CARE Press Release - MPs reject latest Assisted Suicide Bill
Assisted Suicide
CARE Press Release - Church urged to pray ahead of Assisted…
Assisted Suicide
The House of Commons has voted against an Australia-like ban on social media for under-16s. The proposals, backed by the House of Lords, were rejected in favour of flexible powers to restrict…
Pornography
Analysis of five leading AI services has found them recommending illegal online casinos to vulnerable users, putting them at greater risk of gambling harms.
Gambling
The NHS in England has stopped new prescriptions for cross-sex hormones for 16 and 17-year-olds after a review found that there was “really weak” research into the effectiveness of such drugs.
Transgender
The UK government has launched a public consultation on possible new restrictions for under-16s using social media, as ministers examine ways to better protect young people online.
Pornography
A mother has accused a girls’ school of failing to inform parents that a transgender pupil had been admitted.
Transgender
A Maltese court has found Christian speaker Matthew Grech not guilty of “advertising conversion practices”, in what is believed to be the first prosecution of its kind worldwide.
Freedom of Speech
The Assisted Suicide Bill at Westminster is now highly likely to fall due after the government refused to give it any more parliamentary time.
Assisted Suicide