British Isles
Thursday, 01 April 2021 21:53
Teacher fears for his life in cartoon anger
A teacher who showed pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad is in fear for his life. His parents have also gone into hiding, amid growing concerns the wider family may be targeted and even killed…
Thursday, 01 April 2021 21:51
People with Covid symptoms not self-isolating
A study of the test-and-trace system found that fewer than one in five people with Covid symptoms request a test, and few follow full self-isolation rules. The report also found only half of people knew the…
Thursday, 01 April 2021 21:49
Hope for the countryside
23 April is St George’s Day. National identity is controversial in our contemporary culture, but belonging to a nation is important to many people. Solzhenistsyn saw nations as the wealth of mankind. Dostoevsky saw them as…
Thursday, 01 April 2021 21:47
11,000+ incidents of school abuse reported
Please pray for an end to sexual violence and abuse to pupils by pupils in the same school or social group. Children are sharing stories online of a rape culture where abnormal behaviour is now normalised.…
Thursday, 01 April 2021 21:44
Government urged to take over private jail
Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre is privately run, by MTC, on the same site as two prisons. MPs want the Government to take over this detention centre, where children are kept in their cells for all but…
Thursday, 01 April 2021 21:42
Addiction service cuts condemn people to dependence
Psychiatrists have warned that ‘cuts to addiction services for young people risk condemning them to a lifetime of dependence and poor health or even an early death’. The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) reported that between…