Human Rights
Entries are now open for the gamekeepers’ classes at Crufts 2023. The classes, which are hosted by BASC, are open to gamekeepers, owners of working gundogs, gundog teams and young handlers, and will be held on Gundog Day, Thursday 9th March 2023, at the NEC in Birmingham. Postal entries close on 9 January 2023, and you can… Read more »
Banning snares including modern humane cable restraints in Wales will remove an essential conservation tool and could result in local extinctions, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation has warned. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), which has its head office in north Wales, is now calling on the Welsh Government to rethink proposed… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff New allegations of complicity in torture have been levelled against the government amid claims Whitehall told MI5 agents they could question terror suspects they believed had been tortured by foreign security services. Binyam Mohamed – the last British resident at Guantanamo Bay – is among a group of UK citizens and residents… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The former head of MI5 has hit out at the way government has spread fear around society to overrule British civil liberties. The unprecedented intervention by Dame Stella Rimington came in an article to Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia and published in the Daily Telegraph. “It would be better that the government recognised… Read more »