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Friday, 16 February 2024

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‘Jellyfish legislation’: Top KC launches searing attack on Scots ‘conversion therapy’ law

Scottish Government plans for a new law on so-called conversion therapy have been dismissed as “jellyfish legislation” in a withering legal opinion for The Christian Institute.

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Channel 4’s Virgin Island ‘pimping out vulnerable people for ratings’

Channel 4 has been accused of “pimping out contestants for ratings” in an upcoming show which invites strangers to a tropical island to lose their virginity.

NHS England axes ‘anti-women’ LGBT badge scheme

NHS England has ditched its taxpayer-funded LGBT scheme which pushed hospitals to erase sex-specific language.

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NHS Scotland highlights risk of removing biological sex from medical records

Young adults tell of irreparable damage caused in teens by trans-affirming medics

Greens discriminated against gender-critical member, tribunal rules

A member of the Green Party of England and Wales was subjected to unlawful discrimination for expressing his belief that biological sex is real, an employment tribunal has found.

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Parkrun blasted for removing women’s records instead of ending gender self-ID

‘Ireland’s vague hate crime Bill will criminalise ordinary people’ warns leading critic

Ireland’s hate crime Bill will restrict free speech and criminalise ordinary people for expressing unpopular views, Senator Rónán Mullen has warned.

Johns Hopkins slammed over diversity blacklist branding Christians ‘privileged’

A diversity officer at one of America’s top universities has come under fire for labelling Christians and ‘cisgender’ people “privileged”.

Bake Off’s Prue fears she is helping to unleash assisted suicide ‘nightmare’

Dame Prue Leith, an ardent campaigner for assisted suicide, has told of a lingering fear that a change in the law risks elderly people being coerced into seeking state-sanctioned suicide.

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Assisted suicide ‘opposes the purpose and practice of medicine’, Oireachtas told

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Betting firm fined £6m for gross failings

Spanish woman blazes trail as first European parliamentarian with Down’s syndrome

Tánaiste ‘open to’ drug ‘shooting gallery’ in Cork

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