2025 News Archive

April 2025

• Go and Make Known The Gospel - Roger Carswell (17 Apr 2025)
• The Hope of Easter – Israel Olofinjana (17 Apr 2025)
• He is Risen! - Charlie Skrine (17 Apr 2025)
• The Evening of the First Day – Jonathan Pryke (17 Apr 2025)
• Football across Europe 'corrupted' by gambling (17 Apr 2025)
• Two unborn children aborted in Ireland due to misdiagnosis (17 Apr 2025)
• New data reveals worsening cocaine crisis in Scotland (17 Apr 2025)
• 'Marriage matters': former MP defends family and fatherhood (17 Apr 2025)
• Landmark ruling: Supreme Court upholds ordinary definition of ‘woman’ (16 Apr 2025)
• Scots schools’ film honours Christian heroine of the Holocaust (16 Apr 2025)
• Tiny pacemakers offer hope for newborn babies with heart defects (16 Apr 2025)
• New South Wales outlaws practices against 'state-approved LGBT ideology' (16 Apr 2025)
• Stanford researchers suggest making 'brain-dead human bodies' (15 Apr 2025)
• 'New Tavistock' not pushing kids to take sex-swap drugs (15 Apr 2025)
• Free speech advocates urge universities to heed landmark ruling (15 Apr 2025)
• UN Committee slams Canada's 'ableist' euthanasia regime (15 Apr 2025)
• 'Single-sex spaces are as wrong as racial segregation', pro-trans doctor claims (15 Apr 2025)
• Ancient Trinitarian hymn from c200AD brought back to life (11 Apr 2025)
• BBC documentary shows the grim reality of assisted suicide in California and Canada (11 Apr 2025)
• Joan of Arc was 'non-binary', 11-year-old pupils told (11 Apr 2025)
• Ireland's gambling crisis 'ten times worse than previously thought' (11 Apr 2025)
• Manx assisted suicide Bill architect turns attention to legalising cannabis (11 Apr 2025)
• Online 'wild west' must end, says Tánaiste (11 Apr 2025)
• Two men compete for the women’s pool final (11 Apr 2025)
• Woman forced to pay £20k for holding a ‘here to talk’ sign in a censorship zone (11 Apr 2025)
• Bible verse bus to hit Glasgow streets (10 Apr 2025)
• Courageous disc golfer and fencer both refuse to compete against men (10 Apr 2025)
• Health Secretary pledges not to vote for assisted suicide Bill (10 Apr 2025)
• Couple embroiled with police in debacle over women-only event (09 Apr 2025)
• Glasgow 'shooting gallery' branded a 'harm maintenance service' (08 Apr 2025)
• Watchdog exposes Police Scotland shortcomings over MSP ‘hate crime’ complaint (04 Apr 2025)
• RC Archbishop: 'Assisted suicide Bill could create a national death service' (04 Apr 2025)
• Morning-after pill to be 'recklessly' handed out for free at pharmacies (04 Apr 2025)
• Primary school cancels Easter service over ‘inclusivity’ drive (04 Apr 2025)
• SNP forced to admit hand in NHS trans guidance (04 Apr 2025)
• GPs advised not to prescribe trans drugs to under-18s (04 Apr 2025)
• Scots legal experts: ‘McArthur Bill faces long and contentious road ahead’ (03 Apr 2025)
• Govt refuses to give green light to smacking ban in England (03 Apr 2025)
• Employment Bill could 'excessively limit' free speech, EHRC warns (03 Apr 2025)
• Outrage as toddler suspended for 'transphobia or homophobia' (03 Apr 2025)
• 'No free trade without free speech', UK Govt told (02 Apr 2025)
• Lib Dem CEO reminds party to respect gender-critical members (02 Apr 2025)
• Porn habit leads watchers to 'yet more extreme' content (01 Apr 2025)
• Care watchdog's trans policy ‘exposes vulnerable girls to danger’ (01 Apr 2025)
• ‘Outrageous' NI conversion therapy plan could jail parents for opposing child's 'sex change' (01 Apr 2025)

March 2025

• Thousands join in National Day of Prayer Against Assisted Suicide (28 Mar 2025)
• Universities shaken as Sussex Uni given £585k fine for free speech failure (28 Mar 2025)
• Labour MPs urge colleagues to reject Leadbeater's ‘dangerous’ assisted suicide Bill (28 Mar 2025)
• Edinburgh Uni imposes 'reckless' trans policy on single-sex spaces (28 Mar 2025)
• Belgium reports 17 per cent rise in euthanasia deaths (28 Mar 2025)
• Scientist forced out of top-secret base over gender-critical views wins legal victory (28 Mar 2025)
• Govt rejects call to liberalise cannabis laws (28 Mar 2025)
• Scandal-hit LGBT group asked self-harming kids to use 'clean blades' (28 Mar 2025)
• Isle of Man Parliament passes assisted suicide Bill (27 Mar 2025)
• Senior lawyer warns Scotland’s gender self-ID policies may be unlawful (27 Mar 2025)
• MPs challenge Govt ‘overreach’ on home-education (27 Mar 2025)
• 'Assisted suicide is the antidote to life': Committee hears final arguments (26 Mar 2025)
• Renaming of midwives branded 'ideological nonsense' (26 Mar 2025)
• 'I'm the happiest I've ever been', says problem gambler helped to ditch habit (25 Mar 2025)
• Coroner sounds alarm on ketamine’s devastating health effects (25 Mar 2025)
• NI health trusts issue ‘trans pass’ for women’s toilets and changing rooms (25 Mar 2025)
• Alcohol-specific deaths hit record high in Wales (24 Mar 2025)
• John 3:16 pastor may seek High Court intervention in ‘buffer zone’ prosecution (21 Mar 2025)
• Ex-gambling boss urges Govt to stymie ‘turbocharged’ online slots (21 Mar 2025)
• Assisted suicide a ‘lethal weapon’ for domestic abusers (21 Mar 2025)
• City watchdogs ditch ‘woke’ diversity drive (21 Mar 2025)
• Politicians spotlight plight of persecuted Christians (21 Mar 2025)
• NI Justice Minister pushes Alliance drug ‘shooting gallery’ policy (21 Mar 2025)
• Absurd hospital form asks for babies' gender identity (21 Mar 2025)
• Let us never be ‘at peace’ with assisted suicide: Committee Day 10 (20 Mar 2025)
• Illegal content no longer tolerated under Online Safety Act (20 Mar 2025)
• Young adults fuel growing demand for Bibles (20 Mar 2025)
• GPs decry Royal College's 'incompatible' stance on assisted suicide (20 Mar 2025)
• Stonewall's US funding severed as part of foreign aid freeze (19 Mar 2025)
• Assisted suicide Committee Day 9: Should doctors help 'dying patients'? (19 Mar 2025)
• NHS Scotland drops diktat to ‘validate bearded men who claim to be women’ (18 Mar 2025)
• UK aid funds Mexican group involved in illegal US abortions (18 Mar 2025)
• NHS exhausting £100m a year on 'damaging' trans procedures (17 Mar 2025)
• Retired pastor could be fined thousands for preaching the Gospel in abortion buffer zone (14 Mar 2025)
• Kemi Badenoch slams puberty blockers trial (14 Mar 2025)
• ‘Troubling’ rise in abortion rates in Ireland highlighted on International Women's Day (14 Mar 2025)
• Lobby group backs 'safe use' of drugs on NI nightclub scene (14 Mar 2025)
• Consultants: assisted suicide is not healthcare (14 Mar 2025)
• MLAs question Stormont payments to Stonewall (13 Mar 2025)
• Assisted suicide Committee exposes further flaws: Key moments from day 8 (13 Mar 2025)
• Assisted suicide Committee Day 7: Activists continue to reject safeguards (12 Mar 2025)
• Bishop saddened at decision to ditch Council prayers in St Albans (12 Mar 2025)
• Majority of Brits think ‘trans rights’ harm women (07 Mar 2025)
• Trainee midwife 'shocked' at being suspended over pro-life beliefs (07 Mar 2025)
• Fêted Hollywood actress slammed for glamorising ‘sex work’ (07 Mar 2025)
• 'We must pray the Isle of Man rejects assisted suicide' (07 Mar 2025)
• Almost half of students gamble, survey finds (07 Mar 2025)
• Police admit mistake in investigating woman’s gender critical posts (07 Mar 2025)
• Defining 'Islamophobia' risks exacerbating chilling effect on free speech (07 Mar 2025)
• Assisted suicide privatisation 'an option' (07 Mar 2025)
• CBeebies peddles drag queens as model mums (07 Mar 2025)
• Assisted suicide Bill: Key moments in week 3 (06 Mar 2025)
• CI publishes major report challenging Govt's plan to ban 'conversion practices' (06 Mar 2025)
• Gove backs silent prayer in abortion censorship zones (06 Mar 2025)
• MP: ‘Censor criticism of assisted suicide Bill committee’ (05 Mar 2025)
• Irish Cabinet launches national gambling regulator (05 Mar 2025)
• Scottish Greens push for new law on 'conversion practices' (05 Mar 2025)
• Assisted suicide has 'far-reaching implications' for suicide prevention (04 Mar 2025)
• Rejected plans to allow strip searches by trans police officers back on the table (03 Mar 2025)

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)