Assisted dying bill rejected: what the 2026 vote means for ethical debate
The Commons rejected the bill on 11 September 2026. Use the debate to test Natural Law, Situation Ethics and utilitarianism without confusing a vote with a moral argument.
Ideas, arguments, exam craft
Religious Studies news and revision features
Current affairs explained through Philosophy, Ethics and Christian Thought, alongside practical guides to stronger evaluation. News analysis links to its primary sources and separates event dates from our publication dates.
Current affairs: apply the course
Pope Leo XIV on AI: human dignity, work and the mind–body debate
Magnifica Humanitas brings a 2026 Catholic response to AI into conversation with Christian personhood, Kantian ethics and questions about consciousness.
Church attendance rises: does the 2026 evidence challenge secularisation?
Preliminary Church of England figures report growth in 2025. The stronger A Level question is what those figures measure, and what they cannot establish about belief across society.
Ideas, arguments and exam craft
Does AI make the mind–body problem harder?
Machines can imitate conversation, but imitation is not yet consciousness. Here is how Plato, Aristotle and modern materialism sharpen the debate.
When algorithms choose: can Kant and Mill audit AI?
Automated decisions expose the deepest differences between duty, consequences and character—and show why ethical theories need more than a worked example.
Secular Britain: decline, displacement or transformation?
Falling affiliation does not settle what secularisation means. The sharper debate concerns authority, belonging and the changing public role of Christianity.
The 40/60 essay: turning scholarship into judgement
Top-band essays do not bolt evaluation onto recalled notes. They organise knowledge around a contestable line of reasoning from the first paragraph.
How to read primary texts without drowning
Difficult books become usable when you read for a question, track the author’s moves and turn quotations into arguments rather than decorations.