Like millions of other I settled down last week to watch the actress and disability rights campaigner Liz Carr, make the argument against legalising assisted suicide and euthanasia. It was, without a doubt an incredibly powerful film, which I am certain will
In the pursuit of unraveling the secrets to a long and vibrant life, researchers have long been captivated by the phenomenon known as the "Blue Zones."
The Journal of Medical Ethics Forum has posted an article by Prof. David Albert Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, showing that support for assisted suicide in Scotland has declined significantly. Three polls conducted by the pro-assisted suicide group Dignity in
In the recent report by House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee “Assisted Dying/ Assisted Suicide Second Report of Session 2023–24”. They speak about the impact on Palliative Care and wrongly state that if there is a change in the law
This report is a welcome and comprehensive discussion of the issue of assisted suicide and euthanasia in the UK and around the world. It contains up-to-date information about areas where the practice is legal and discussions in the UK. It is even-handed
It is already illegal to sell any vaping product to under-18s, so banning disposables will do nothing but take them out of the hands of adults, who represent the vast majority of users of disposable vapes. With this ban on disposables, the
Everyone pretends they have read Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. But they haven’t; I’m sure of it. Because if they had, we wouldn’t, here and now, in the UK, be strolling nonchalantly towards frightfully similar totalitarian horrors. Orwell’s boldly drawn satire throws a bright
If you visit a typical classroom filled with teenagers studying for their GCSEs, you’ll find that 45 percent are not living with both natural parents. Many will agree with me that this is an extraordinarily high proportion. It’s almost certainly the highest
The following is from the Department of Education’s guidelines about how Black History should be taught at Key Stage 3 Teachers could, for example, look at Britain’s transatlantic slave trade – its effects and its eventual abolition – including the successful slave-led
Politicians have come to believe many things about decarbonisation that are not true. This applies just as much to those in opposition as it does to those on the Government benches. Ed Miliband, for example, has become convinced that offshore wind is
