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Sunday trading: Better abolished than relaxed

Recently the Government floated the idea of increasing Sunday trading hours – supposedly this was meant to help keep large businesses sweet because there was going to be a tax hike. However, thanks to people speaking out against it, the Government has indicated it was only ‘flying a kite’ to gauge people’s opinions, and that it wasn’t seriously thinking about it.

Lesley Scott 1966-2025

All of us at the Institute were deeply saddened to learn of the passing last month of Lesley Scott, who worked tirelessly alongside us as part of the NO2NP campaign.

‘When you’re getting in the way, call it a day’: Mitchell & Webb vs New Statesman on assisted suicide

An article in The New Statesman this week was entitled ‘Let them die: the case for assisted dying’.  Its author, political journalist Oli Dugmore, best known as editor of men’s website JOE.co.uk, gave an astonishingly one-sided take of the issue of assisted suicide, which failed to engage with any concerns and simply declared that legalisation is in everyone’s best interests.