Looking back at 2025
2025 has been one of the busiest years on record for The Christian Institute, with multiple campaigns on the go and various pieces of legislation we’re working on all progressing through Parliament at the same time.
Features
Civil partnerships and what God has not joined together
It’s 20 years since the first same-sex civil partnerships took place in the UK. The Civil Partnership Act was a landmark moment in our cultural life, paving the way for so much that has happened since.
The insidious romanticising of assisted suicide
A double suicide is in the news for the second time in a week.
Assisted suicide activists can’t stand seeing the Leadbeater Bill finally getting the scrutiny it needs
Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is finally undergoing some proper scrutiny, and its supporters are not happy at all.
Mind the gap: IEA’S fertility fix is missing marriage
Guest feature by Dr Tony Rucinski, Director of Supporter Strategy at the Coalition for Marriage
Betting shops are like the Samaritans? Pull the other one.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to reveal in the next budget a sharp increase in taxes on sports betting. Unsurprisingly, betting giants are threatening to close their shops, claiming the tax will force them to make thousands of redundancies. The CEO of BetFred said the change would lead them to close all 1,300 betting shops in the UK. Entain, which owns Ladbrokes and Coral, also says it would close swathes of its 2,300 shops.