British Isles
Thursday, 28 February 2019 22:27
Insight: what would Jesus do?
A shooting range which provides ‘family fun’ for adults and children aged six and over announced a new target in a tweet. ‘Hot off the press’ showed an image of Shamima Begum and the hashtag ‘no…
Thursday, 28 February 2019 22:24
Stop investing in fossil fuels
The former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said he was deeply concerned that the UK’s export credit agency had provided billions of pounds in recent years to support businesses involved in oil and gas schemes around the…
Thursday, 28 February 2019 22:21
Self-harm not just an issue for girls
Research has found that 24% of boys aged 16 to 24 in the UK self-harm. Sadly, the culture of men not showing emotions or talking through their emotional concerns has a direct link to the suicide…
Thursday, 28 February 2019 22:18
Hidden homelessness
Councils are accused of hiding the scale of the rough sleeping crisis in England by changing the way they compiled figures for the 2018 official count. For example, Southend had 72 people sleeping rough in 2017.…
Thursday, 28 February 2019 22:14
Street preacher arrested
A Twitter video of a street preacher’s arrest in London has been viewed over 1.8 million times. It shows the man confronted by two police officers warning he would be arrested for a breach of the…
Thursday, 28 February 2019 22:09
Amnesty International’s 'toxic culture' of bullying
A review was launched into working practices at Amnesty International after two staff members, Gaetan Mootoo and Rosalind McGregor, committed suicide last year. The review found that ‘organisational culture and management failures’ were the root cause…