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Govt announces tough new measures on uni free speech ([link removed])
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The Government has announced a range of tough new measures to ensure that free speech is not restricted at universities.


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Northern Ireland’s Education Minister has publicly backed former MLA Nelson McCausland after he was falsely accused of promoting “conversion therapy practices”.



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The Scottish Justice Committee has launched an extremely short 96-hour public consultation on the Scottish Government’s controversial hate crime Bill.


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Evangelicals and Catholics call on Scot Govt to axe controversial section of hate crime Bill ([link removed])
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A group of 27 church leaders has been granted permission for a judicial review over the closure of places of worship in Scotland under recent Covid-19 measures.


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ONS U-turn: Census to record ‘legal sex’ not self-ID ([link removed])
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Controversial plans to allow people to ‘self-identify’ as someone of the opposite sex on this year’s census for England and Wales have been abandoned.


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Paul Givan MLA and Heidi Crowter


EXCLUSIVE: MLA and Down’s syndrome campaigner talk to CI ([link removed])
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An MLA and a Down’s syndrome campaigner have told The Christian Institute why they are fighting to change the laws on abortion for disabilities.


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New Bill aims to end disability abortion in NI ([link removed])
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