Teaching for today

Teaching for today

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  • CI News: 25 July 2025
    In CI News this week: A Labour MP shows contempt for millions of voters who believe in the reality of biological sex, backbench MPs urge the Government to reform gambling legislation, and a baby born at twenty-two weeks and one day celebrates his second birthday.
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    Featured stories
    • Labour MP calls gender-critics ‘swivel-eyed’ fanatics
    • 3-year-old with puberty symptoms after exposure to father’s ‘sex change’ drugs
    • Backbench MPs push for wholesale gambling reform
    • Baby born at 22 weeks celebrates second birthday with staff who saved his life
    • 6 min
    • CI News: 18 July 2025
      In CI News this week: New government guidance for schools in England is criticised for removing the minimum age limit for teaching sex ed, the King hosts a pagan ceremony to promote his philosophy of ‘Harmony’, and celebrated Bible teacher John MacArthur dies aged 86.
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      Featured stories
      • Long-awaited sex ed guidance removes age limits for sex education
      • Police ‘pride’ march damaging public trust, High Court rules
      • King Charles honours ‘mother earth’ in Highgrove fire pit ceremony
      • Pastor John MacArthur: 1939-2025
      • 7 min
      • CI News: 11 July 2025
        In CI News this week: The Government finally publishes guidance which better safeguards gender-questioning pupils in England, the Institute warns that a new definition of 'Islamophobia' could undermine free speech, and calls to scrap the historic practice of parliamentary prayers are rejected.
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        Featured stories
        • DfE safeguarding guidance protecting gender-questioning pupils finally published
        • CI: ‘Attempts to define Islamophobia endanger free speech and public safety’
        • Bereavement leave to be expanded to parents of babies pre-abortion limit
        • Parliament rejects calls to abandon Christian prayers
        • 5 min
        • CI News: 4 July 2025
          In CI News this week: Former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby regrets trusting the Bible’s teaching on sexual ethics, Dame Emma Thompson calls for sex with prostitutes to be available on the NHS, and a cancer patient given months to live is still going strong four years on.
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          Featured stories
          • ‘I was thick’ – Welby regrets trusting Bible on sexual ethics
          • Emma Thompson calls for ‘prostitutes on the NHS’
          • Belfast City Council tries to cover up £10m estimate for ‘LGBTQIA+ hub’
          • Cancer patient given just months to live ‘really positive’ four years on
          • 5 min
          • CI News: 27 June 2025
            In CI News this week: Peers pledge to oppose Kim Leadbeater’s deeply flawed assisted suicide Bill, after MPs voted to back the proposals, the Northern Ireland Department of Finance launches a consultation on making divorce easier in the Province, and OMF International celebrates 160 years since its founding.
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            Featured stories
            • Peers vow to fight on against ‘breathtakingly cruel’ assisted suicide Bill
            • NI launches consultation on no-fault divorce
            • Franklin Graham shares God’s message of ‘hope and forgiveness’ with 17,000
            • OMF celebrates 160 years of ‘making God’s name known’ in East Asia
            • 5 min
            • CI News: 20 June 2025
              In CI News this week: MPs launch a serious assault on the sanctity of human life as they vote to axe end-of-life protections and decriminalise abortion up to birth, the Office for Students emphasises that free speech in universities must not be unduly restricted, and an original copy of the first Welsh translation of the Bible goes on public display.
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              Featured stories
              • MPs approve ‘dangerous’ assisted suicide Bill
              • MPs back activist demands to significantly liberalise abortion law
              • New guidance a turning point for free speech at universities
              • Historic 1588 Welsh Bible on display for the first time
              • 7 min
              • CI News: 13 June 2025
                In CI News this week: MPs raise critical concerns with Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill ahead of the upcoming vote, the equalities watchdog rebukes trans activists for threatening its staff, and the National Secular Society complains as Derbyshire County Council introduces Christian prayers.
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                Featured stories
                • MPs blast Leadbeater’s ‘deeply flawed’ assisted suicide Bill
                • Royal College of Pathologists ‘cannot support’ Leadbeater Bill
                • More than 1,000 doctors urge MPs to vote against Leadbeater Bill
                • EHRC staff at ‘serious risk of violence’ from trans activists
                • MPs call for clampdown on unsupervised ‘pills by post’ abortions
                • Poll: Six in ten adults oppose decriminalising abortion
                • Secularists upset by Council prayers
                • 6 min
                • CI News: 6 June 2025
                  In CI News this week: MPs speak up for the unborn and expectant mothers in a Westminster Hall debate on decriminalising abortion, a new BBC drama is criticised for pandering to transgender ideology, and the Governor of Nevada derails assisted suicide proposals.
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                  Featured stories
                  • ‘Both lives matter’, MPs told in abortion decriminalisation debate
                  • Nigel Farage: UK abortion limit is ‘utterly ludicrous’ and should be reduced
                  • New BBC drama accused of ‘bending knee to trans cult’
                  • Ireland told to limit free speech with ‘draconian’ EU hate speech laws
                  • Nevada Governor: ‘I will not sign assisted suicide Bill’
                  • 5 min
                  • CI News: 30 May 2025
                    In CI News this week: The Church of Scotland votes to reaffirm its opposition to assisted suicide, London Mayor Sadiq Khan pushes the Government to decriminalise cannabis, and a US court rules that a Christian businesswoman cannot be forced to photograph same sex weddings.
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                    Featured stories
                    • Kirk maintains opposition to assisted suicide
                    • Sadiq Khan backs latest call to decriminalise ‘harmful’ cannabis
                    • Betting firm to exit UK after £3.3 million fine as football clubs warned to take note
                    • US Christian cannot be forced to photograph same-sex weddings
                    • 5 min
                    • CI News: 23 May 2025
                      In CI News this week: The majority of Brits support the Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of ‘woman’, parents in Jersey are outraged by guidance saying they need not be informed if their child ‘changes gender’ at school, and the Scottish Parliament is told that voices of people with faith should not be sidelined in politics.
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                      Featured stories
                      • Poll: Over half of adults back Supreme Court’s trans ruling
                      • Jersey school guidance pushes trans ideology behind parents’ backs
                      • Councils powerless as ’addictive’ slot machine firms target deprived areas
                      • Voices of faith in politics should not be silenced, MSPs told
                      • 7 min

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