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New polling commissioned by the Civitas think tank concluded that almost 6 million people would try cannabis for the first time if it were legalised. Calls by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to legalise cannabis would lead to an extra 800,000 Londoners taking up cannabis for the first time, the biggest surge in new cannabis users…

Study sheds more light on inter-population culture transmission in animals

In a statement to the House of Commons, BEIS minister Paul Scully announced “interim payments of compensation” to postmasters impacted by the post office Horizon scandal. Scully told the House that he has been “moved” by the impacts of these events on paymasters. Shadow minister Chi Onwurah welcomed the announcement, praising the minister for making…

MPs have today accused “morally bankrupt” billionaires of using the UK as a “laundromat” for illicit finance despite a slew of fresh sanctions. In a new report: “The Cost of Complacency: illicit finance and the war in Ukraine”, the foreign affairs committee urges  the government to act now, while sanctions against Russia are in place,…

In a report today the House of Commons public accounts committee (PAC) complains that there is an “unacceptable cloak of secrecy” surrounding plans to restore the Houses of Parliament. The report says progress on the restoration and renewal of Parliament is “unacceptably slow” with the “likely start date for major works pushed back by many…

Following an urgent question regarding the US Supreme Court decision to allow states to decide of the legality of abortions, foreign minister Amanda Milling made a statement on the matter. Milling told MPs that “the UK is proud to defend and promote universal and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights”.  But Milling didn’t slam…

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Increase of 2C in winter temperature could reduce the miniscule Antarctic midge’s chances of survival, study finds

In a statement to the House of Commons, health secretary Sajid Javid championed the arrival of a modernised Mental Health Act which will bring legislation “into the 21st Century”. This long term plan will see mental health service investment “reach an extra £2.3 billion each year by 2023/24” Labour’s front bench and former prime minister…

Conservative MP John Baron asked an urgent question in which he stressed to foreign minister Vicky Ford that “there remains around 180 British Council contractors in Afghanistan”, 85 of which the UK has classified at “very high risk”. Baron highlighted to Ford the issue that the government’s new application service for these individuals will have…