2025 News Archive

February 2025

• NHS puberty blocker trial ‘unethical’ and will harm children (28 Feb 2025)
• Ex-senior judge warns that assisted suicide panel proposals 'fall short' (28 Feb 2025)
• Degrading and violent online pornography must be banned, says Govt review (28 Feb 2025)
• Assisted suicide panel: Social workers ‘already at capacity’ (28 Feb 2025)
• Scotland’s First Minister doubles down on support for men in women's spaces (28 Feb 2025)
• The Leadbeater Bill: Safeguards rejected as Clause 1 passes (27 Feb 2025)
• MSP: 'Praying in your home could be illegal depending who passes the window' (27 Feb 2025)
• Ketamine use more than doubles in a year (27 Feb 2025)
• Neighbours star glad he didn't take assisted suicide drugs (27 Feb 2025)
• Cricket board 'ignoring female cricketers while bowing to trans activists' (27 Feb 2025)
• Christian groups call for national day of prayer against assisted suicide (26 Feb 2025)
• Lib Dems forced to accept gender-critical beliefs (25 Feb 2025)
• Victoria set to allow doctors to suggest assisted suicide to patients (25 Feb 2025)
• Kate Forbes ‘unequivocally’ supports same-sex spaces for women (21 Feb 2025)
• Leadbeater Bill ‘flying blind’ to consequences for Wales (21 Feb 2025)
• Secular alternative to Christian school assemblies debated in House of Lords (21 Feb 2025)
• Diane Abbott: 'Leadbeater Bill is pernicious, mishandled and deeply flawed’ (21 Feb 2025)
• UK to spend over £30m in foreign aid towards 'LGBT+ rights' (21 Feb 2025)
• Guardian columnist: 'Leadbeater dismisses anyone who questions her Bill' (21 Feb 2025)
• BBC drama slammed for using dementia as 'political propaganda' in trans storyline (20 Feb 2025)
• Top psychiatrists warn staff shortages could render Leadbeater Bill unworkable (20 Feb 2025)
• Gospel proclaimed in Holyrood: 'God's love never runs out' (20 Feb 2025)
• Stormont: 'Gambling Wild West damaging society' (20 Feb 2025)
• Dublin heroin centre ‘facilitating poisoning’ (19 Feb 2025)
• CI cautions Stormont to tread carefully with ‘standardised’ equality law (19 Feb 2025)
• Muslim MP: ‘Prayers in Parliament part of nation’s Christian heritage’ (19 Feb 2025)
• Terminally ill could choose assisted suicide to save money under Leadbeater Bill (18 Feb 2025)
• Half of all murders drug-related for fifth year in a row (17 Feb 2025)
• Parents fight to stop sex-change treatment for minors (17 Feb 2025)
• Attempt to give parents freedom to see teaching materials rejected by Labour (14 Feb 2025)
• Labour MP: ‘Gender-critical groups behind conversion practices’ (14 Feb 2025)
• Whitty admits getting it wrong on capacity to choose assisted suicide (14 Feb 2025)
• Judges told to ditch 'preferred pronouns' (14 Feb 2025)
• School ‘sex survey’ data sharing put on pause (14 Feb 2025)
• British and Irish political leaders urged to follow Trump’s lead and ‘keep men out of women’s sports’ (14 Feb 2025)
• Lidl pushes to extend Sunday trading hours in NI (14 Feb 2025)
• Assisted suicide Bill: What we learnt from day 2 scrutiny (13 Feb 2025)
• Christian school worker vindicated at Court of Appeal (13 Feb 2025)
• Leadbeater criticised for removing 'ultimate safeguard' from her assisted suicide Bill (13 Feb 2025)
• Almost 3,500 women sent for 'sex-swap' mastectomies on NHS in three years (13 Feb 2025)
• Long-running US legal case over ‘cash for baby parts’ exposé is at an end (13 Feb 2025)
• Australia launches review of puberty blockers for gender-confused kids (13 Feb 2025)
• Assisted suicide Bill: 10 key moments from day 1 of Committee scrutiny (12 Feb 2025)
• Westminster has 'no plans' to criminalise parents who smack (12 Feb 2025)
• Media watchdog accused of peddling pro-LGBT bias (12 Feb 2025)
• Police: ‘Pro-lifer standing near abortion centre is harassment’ (12 Feb 2025)
• Thousands demand end to ‘dangerous’ abortion pills-by-post scheme (11 Feb 2025)
• Second footballer suspended for asking if her opponents were male (10 Feb 2025)
• 'Good Samaritan of the skies' who co-founded Mission Aviation Fellowship dies (07 Feb 2025)
• Labour MPs criticise Committee's handling of assisted suicide Bill (07 Feb 2025)
• Couples aborted healthy babies after hospital misdiagnoses (07 Feb 2025)
• Bid to compel preferred pronoun use rejected in win for common sense (07 Feb 2025)
• Muslim politician urges Govt to reject controversial Islamophobia definition (07 Feb 2025)
• Christian fast-food chain keeps Sunday special in NI venture (07 Feb 2025)
• Psychiatrists: ‘Leadbeater Bill undermines suicide prevention’ (07 Feb 2025)
• NI abortion figures rise for third year in a row (06 Feb 2025)
• Health Secretary urged to ban cross-sex hormones for under-18s (06 Feb 2025)
• Stark warning on assisted suicide Bill: 'I could have killed myself when I wasn't terminally ill' (06 Feb 2025)
• Gambling giant unlawfully bombarded suicidal gambler with ads (06 Feb 2025)
• Scottish mum ‘utterly shocked’ by sex ed for nine-year-old daughter (05 Feb 2025)
• Trump reinstates pro-life protections for unborn overseas (05 Feb 2025)
• MLAs reject attempt to keep men out of women's prisons (04 Feb 2025)
• GPs urged to screen all patients for problem gambling (03 Feb 2025)
• ‘An assault on free speech’: US uni event cancelled by gender ideology activists (03 Feb 2025)

January 2025

• Disbelief as assisted suicide lobbyist markets practice as ‘suicide prevention’ (31 Jan 2025)
• US March for Life: 'We will march until abortion is not only illegal, but unthinkable' (31 Jan 2025)
• EHRC calls for Govt intervention over assisted suicide Bill (31 Jan 2025)
• BBC highlights the harm of porn on children (31 Jan 2025)
• Dublin hospital chief backs abortion for Down’s syndrome (31 Jan 2025)
• NI Assembly urged to tackle online gambling with statutory levy (31 Jan 2025)
• MP fears diabetes comes within remit of Leadbeater Bill (31 Jan 2025)
• Teacher who quit rather than affirm gender ideology gets $450K payout (31 Jan 2025)
• Alberta drug deaths plummet as it shuns decriminalisation (31 Jan 2025)
• ‘Assisted suicide Bill fails to protect people with anorexia’, MP warns (31 Jan 2025)
• US: Legal clash over abortion ‘pills by post’ sent into pro-life states (30 Jan 2025)
• Chris Whitty: 'Low mood no reason to reject assisted suicide bids' (29 Jan 2025)
• Disney U-turn on transgender content for children (29 Jan 2025)
• Arizona Governor claims gathering data on abortion ‘an attack on women’ (29 Jan 2025)
• Cork councillor: 'Mainstream views of biology must not be labelled transphobic' (29 Jan 2025)
• Men in women’s prisons: Transgender policy gap causing controversy (29 Jan 2025)
• Govt rebuffs civil service calls to broaden extremism definition (29 Jan 2025)
• Fiftyfold rise in gender confused children (28 Jan 2025)
• CofE delays vote on standalone services for same-sex blessings (24 Jan 2025)
• ‘Overheard conversations’ could count as harassment under employment Bill (24 Jan 2025)
• Ofcom: ‘Access to online porn must be ring-fenced against under-18s’ (24 Jan 2025)
• ‘Extremely dangerous’ ketamine could become Class A drug (24 Jan 2025)
• MS calls for 'urgent' inquiry into gambling crisis in Wales (24 Jan 2025)
• President Trump: 'We will defend women by upholding biological reality in law' (24 Jan 2025)
• ‘Skewed’ witness selection on assisted suicide sparks indignation (23 Jan 2025)
• England Hockey declares women’s game for ‘females at birth’ only (23 Jan 2025)
• Record-breaking preemie now four-year-old Mickey Mouse fan (23 Jan 2025)
• Gender-neutral toilets blamed for allowing boy to secretly film hundreds of girls (23 Jan 2025)
• MSPs urged to rebuff assisted suicide's 'society of death' (23 Jan 2025)
• Scot Govt raises alarm after kids exposed to porn on school iPads (22 Jan 2025)
• US abortion lobby enlists pharmacists for ‘pills-by-post scheme’ (22 Jan 2025)
• Irish Government to 'advance' conversion practices ban (21 Jan 2025)
• Assisted suicide Committee convenes for first time (21 Jan 2025)
• Over 1,500 babies in Scotland born with drug or alcohol addiction (21 Jan 2025)
• Govt rebuffs push for re-evaluation of Cass Review (20 Jan 2025)
• Veterans' charity manager defrauds £68k to fund gambling addiction (20 Jan 2025)
• Scottish activist criticised for linking pro-life views to fascism (20 Jan 2025)
• Education Secretary pledges to relaunch blocked uni free speech law (17 Jan 2025)
• Govt urged to extend bereavement leave to parents of younger unborn babies (17 Jan 2025)
• London council claims it could be 'prejudiced' to ask for 'Christian names' (17 Jan 2025)
• Whitehall 'rips up' ideological trans policy after £117k payout (17 Jan 2025)
• UK drug driving sparks concern among police forces (17 Jan 2025)
• Ireland’s hate crime law ‘high point of wokeism’ (17 Jan 2025)
• Open Doors: 380 million Christians face persecution (16 Jan 2025)
• MSP reconsiders support for assisted suicide in light of Westminster debate (16 Jan 2025)
• Cutting crime tackles drug addiction in Wales (16 Jan 2025)
• Health Secretary urged to prevent 'heinous crimes' by closing abortion loophole (16 Jan 2025)
• Government funding for Stonewall criticised (16 Jan 2025)
• MPs question ‘intrusive and burdensome’ requirements of home education register (15 Jan 2025)
• Govt urged to ditch ‘deeply flawed’ Islamophobia definition (15 Jan 2025)
• UK’s first drug ‘shooting gallery’ opens (13 Jan 2025)
• MP defends Christian prayers in Parliament against ‘modernisers’ (10 Jan 2025)
• Baroness Owen leads push to criminalise deepfake porn (10 Jan 2025)
• ‘A scandal waiting to happen’: Trans-inclusive police warrant cards policy (10 Jan 2025)
• NHS calendar sparks criticism over focus on LGBT events (10 Jan 2025)
• Dawkins quits atheist group for censoring biological definition of sex (09 Jan 2025)
• New schools Bill could require home ed parents to report Sunday school attendance to state (08 Jan 2025)
• Dublin heroin centre opens amid widespread concern (08 Jan 2025)
• Dozens of MPs could withdraw support for assisted suicide Bill over doctors’ concerns (03 Jan 2025)
• Lib Dems sued by party member victimised for upholding biological sex (03 Jan 2025)
• Virginia teachers cannot be forced to bow to 'radical' trans policy (03 Jan 2025)
• Champions for euthanasia in Canada admit ‘safeguards’ failing (03 Jan 2025)
• Over 40,000 exhort IOC to 'keep women's sports for women' (02 Jan 2025)