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Nicola Sturgeon resigns
16 Feb 2023
Nicola Sturgeon will step down as Scotland's first minister after over eight years in the job. She has resigned without achieving the one overriding ambition which first sparked her interest in politics as a teenager -…
‘My faith makes me unfashionable’
16 Feb 2023
Tory MP Danny Kruger, a Christian, says his faith makes him unfashionable and is likely to affect his political career. He grew up in an atheist home but 'always felt that wasn't adequate', and converted aged…
Gender-neutral substitutes for God?
16 Feb 2023
The Church of England is considering alternatives to referring to God as ‘he’ after some priests asked to be allowed to use gender-neutral terms instead. The Church is launching a new project on the matter in…
Controversial counter-terrorism report
16 Feb 2023
William Shawcross was appointed to review the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy in January 2021. Last week he concluded that Prevent concentrated too much on the far right and not enough on Islamist extremism. But he only attended…
Russia: soldiers’ deaths, Wagner
16 Feb 2023
More Russian soldiers are dying this month than at any time since the invasion. 824 Russian losses a day is over four times the rate reported in June and July. The Ukrainian military claims 137,780 Russian…
Russian ships with nuclear weapons
16 Feb 2023
Russia has deployed vessels armed with tactical nuclear weapons in the Baltic Sea for the first time in three decades, according to a Norwegian intelligence report. Warships regularly went to sea with nuclear weapons during the…