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        <title>‘Conversion practices Bill has Stonewall’s fingerprints all over it’</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Stonewall has been granted extraordinary access to Government over its plans to ban ‘conversion practices’, opponents of the proposals have warned.
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        <title>Watchdog chief: Drugs in prison are driving violence and reoffending</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Illegal drug use is fuelling addiction and criminality within our prison system, His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons has warned.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 13:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Drug deaths still at &#039;historic&#039; levels</title>
        <link>https://www.christian.org.uk/news/drug-deaths-still-at-historic-levels/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The number of drug deaths registered in England and Wales remains stubbornly high, new data has shown.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Parents reported to social services for not ‘affirming’ gender-confused children</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Parents have warned that they are being reported to the authorities for challenging their child&#8217;s mistaken belief they have been born in the wrong body.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Social worker: &#039;Pro-trans policy makes safeguarding docs incomprehensible&#039;</title>
        <link>https://www.christian.org.uk/news/social-worker-pro-trans-policy-makes-safeguarding-docs-incomprehensible/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[A legal challenge has been launched against the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) over its ‘ideological’ transgender policy.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>&#039;Parents who challenge child&#039;s claim to same-sex attraction must not be criminalised&#039;</title>
        <link>https://www.christian.org.uk/news/parents-who-challenge-childs-claim-to-same-sex-attraction-must-not-be-criminalised/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The Government&#8217;s plans to outlaw &#8216;conversion practices&#8217; would exacerbate family tensions, a prominent gender-critical campaigner has warned.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Ketamine puts young people in &#039;nappies for life&#039;, warns deputy mayor</title>
        <link>https://www.christian.org.uk/news/ketamine-puts-young-people-in-nappies-for-life-warns-deputy-mayor/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Deputy mayor for West Yorkshire has warned that young people must &#8220;understand the dangers of ketamine&#8221;.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>NHS squandering millions on sex-swap surgeries</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[NHS England has spent over £5 million this past year on mastectomies for gender-confused women, it has been estimated.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Telling someone &#039;you are not a cat&#039; could be illegal under Govt&#039;s conversion practices Bill</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Attempting to convince a person that they are human, and not a cat, could be illegal under the Government&#8217;s draft &#8216;conversion practices&#8217; Bill, a Policy Exchange report has warned.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Bristol Council apologises for banning gender critics</title>
        <link>https://www.christian.org.uk/news/bristol-council-apologises-for-banning-gender-critics/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Campaigners banned from Bristol City Hall over their belief that sex is binary and immutable have been vindicated.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 10:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Labour voters don&#039;t want Government criminalising parents and pastors</title>
        <link>https://www.christian.org.uk/news/labour-voters-dont-want-government-criminalising-parents-and-pastors/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Labour voters are overwhelmingly against the Westminster Government&#8217;s plans to ban ‘conversion practices’ due to the impact it would have on parents and pastors, a new poll has revealed.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Westminster committee warned against ‘tyranny’ of Govt’s Conversion Practices Bill</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Oral evidence on the Government’s controversial draft Bill to ban so-called conversion practices began this week.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Gay couple seek partial refund if surrogate has a girl</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Two gay men have been made the legal parents of a boy, born as part of an illegal surrogacy arrangement involving sex selection.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>GP felt bullied into resigning over puberty blocker concerns</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A doctor argues she was hounded out of her job after raising safeguarding concerns about prescribing trans drugs to vulnerable teenagers.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Anorexia survivor once given weeks to live walks Great Wall of China</title>
        <link>https://www.christian.org.uk/news/anorexia-survivor-once-given-weeks-to-live-walks-great-wall-of-china/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[A woman has completed a nine-day hike along the Great Wall of China to mark a decade of recovery from anorexia.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Scope apologises for cancelling choir over gender-critical views</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A disability charity has admitted that it was wrong to cancel a choir over the organiser&#8217;s belief in biological reality.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Online porn &#039;normalising&#039; degrading and violent behaviour to be banned from November</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Online pornography that depicts harmful or illegal acts is to be banned from 6 November, the Government has confirmed.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Manx doctors ‘sound the alarm’ as assisted suicide law receives Royal Assent</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Doctors have raised serious concerns about introducing assisted suicide on the Isle of Man despite the law receiving Royal Assent.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Jersey to rein in liberal laws on medicinal cannabis</title>
        <link>https://www.christian.org.uk/news/jersey-to-rein-in-liberal-laws-on-medicinal-cannabis/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Robust measures are to be introduced on Jersey to control prescribing cannabis.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Assisted reproduction technologies driving adoption shortfall</title>
        <link>https://www.christian.org.uk/news/assisted-reproduction-technologies-driving-adoption-shortfall/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Procedures such as surrogacy, IVF, and egg freezing are having a detrimental effect on adopter recruitment, a recent study has found.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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