2026 News Archive

January 2026

• Govt pares back home-ed register bureaucracy from Children and Schools Bill (30 Jan 2026)
• MLAs unite to tackle 'online retail' of prostitution (30 Jan 2026)
• Peer: 'CI civil service case highlights dangers of 'politicised policing' (30 Jan 2026)
• Pornhub to stop access to new UK users in age verification row (30 Jan 2026)
• Huge rise in drug-driving reoffending (30 Jan 2026)
• Euthanasia Bill stalls in French Senate (30 Jan 2026)
• Parents call for ‘life-saving’ rehab facilities as drug use increases (29 Jan 2026)
• Pro-abortion MP rejects 'extreme' proposal over risks to women (29 Jan 2026)
• New campaign launches to overturn same-sex marriage in US (29 Jan 2026)
• Preemie mum thanks hospital staff for saving both their lives (29 Jan 2026)
• Irish Govt: ‘No legal obligation on schools to use preferred pronouns’ (28 Jan 2026)
• NI smacking ban risks 'compromising child safety', CI warns (28 Jan 2026)
• Drug seller guilty of assisting suicides gets 14 years (27 Jan 2026)
• 'Life is a gift': Crowds March for Life in Washington (27 Jan 2026)
• Senedd urged to stop assisted suicide being imposed on Wales (26 Jan 2026)
• Church banned from Freshers' Fair successfully challenges 'discriminatory' policy (23 Jan 2026)
• Pro-assisted suicide MPs and Peers fear Leadbeater Bill may fall (23 Jan 2026)
• Academics and public figures call for an end to Uni cancel culture (23 Jan 2026)
• Ireland’s dangerous ‘K-culture’ escalating demand for drug treatment (23 Jan 2026)
• Decline in marriage a ‘concern for Irish Church and State’ (23 Jan 2026)
• Holyrood must vote on assisted suicide without key safeguards (22 Jan 2026)
• Ex-Liverpool star to warn footballers in Ireland against gambling harm (22 Jan 2026)
• Project spotlights Hannah More's correspondence with abolitionist Wilberforce (22 Jan 2026)
• UK's most premature twins 'thriving' at school (22 Jan 2026)
• Trans activists hack free speech group in ideologically driven attack (22 Jan 2026)
• Health Sec challenged over ‘ideologically driven’ puberty blocker trial (22 Jan 2026)
• 36-year-old man committed suicide after being enticed by illegal betting sites (22 Jan 2026)
• Welsh school cleared of 'inappropriate promotion of Christianity' (21 Jan 2026)
• Pro-assisted suicide MSP announces change of heart over coercion concerns (21 Jan 2026)
• 'I used to gamble for 24 hours at a time' (21 Jan 2026)
• Assisted suicide because of poverty debated in House of Lords scrutiny (20 Jan 2026)
• Abortions at highest level ever in England and Wales (16 Jan 2026)
• Open Doors reports global rise in Christian persecution (16 Jan 2026)
• Win for Darlington nurses in changing rooms privacy case (16 Jan 2026)
• Canada scraps drug decriminalisation policy: ‘It didn’t work’ (16 Jan 2026)
• US court backs homeless mission’s right to only hire Christians (16 Jan 2026)
• Peers: ‘Online glorification of child sex abuse must end’ (16 Jan 2026)
• Babies are still being born addicted to drugs in Scotland (16 Jan 2026)
• UK Govt to criminalise 'disgusting' AI-generated nudes (16 Jan 2026)
• Mum celebrates ethical stem cell transplant that saved her daughter's life (15 Jan 2026)
• NI universities accused of censoring gender-critical students (15 Jan 2026)
• Bible sales reach record high, as Gen Z shows increasing openness (15 Jan 2026)
• Stonewall reports ‘spectacular funding implosion’ (15 Jan 2026)
• BPAS slammed for advice that could encourage sex-selective abortions (13 Jan 2026)
• Christian foster parents lose licence over LGBT affirming policy (13 Jan 2026)
• Bet365 boss pockets £280m as millions harmed by gambling (12 Jan 2026)
• Lords debate judge role in assisted suicide process (09 Jan 2026)
• Stranger funds teen’s black-market trans drugs (09 Jan 2026)
• Teen who started gambling at 17 ran away from home over £4k debt (09 Jan 2026)
• Specialist GPs to deliver 'gender-affirming care' (09 Jan 2026)
• Home Secretary faces legal action over hate crime policing (08 Jan 2026)
• US university blasted for celebrating ‘murderous’ pro-euthanasia alumnus (08 Jan 2026)
• Groundbreaking gene therapy helps fight aggressive cancer (07 Jan 2026)
• Betting giant to pay £2m over serious welfare failings (06 Jan 2026)
• AI ‘nudification’ apps to be made illegal in move to protect children online (05 Jan 2026)
• Study finds widespread cocaine pollution in NI rivers and lakes (05 Jan 2026)