Support wavers for assisted suicide bill
Nicola Laver
'The more the [assisted suicide] bill is scrutinised, the more obvious it becomes how dangerous it is for the most vulnerable in our society’, the Christian Institute (CI) has said.
Just four days after the CI’s warning, it was reported in The Times that some MPs who initially backed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill are wavering because of the removal of what was considered a key safeguard. On 11 February, Kim Leadbetter who sponsored the bill, said the requirement for High Court judge to rubberstamp a patient’s decision to end their life would be dropped.
Alarm bells sound as assisted suicide bill progresses
Nicola Laver
Kim Leadbeater, the MP behind the new and controversial assisted suicide bill, has been criticised for deciding the first committee sitting would sit partly in private – and for producing a list of potential witnesses broadly supporting the bill.
The committee has already issued a call for written evidence. But when the committee met for the first time on 21 January, Leadbeater told members some of the sitting would be in private to respect ‘individuals’ privacy’.
Have we got dogs and human beings mixed up?
Recently I have found myself caught between my love of the Royal Family and my dislike of dogs.
I don’t know which side of that statement will make me more unpopular with readers of en. (If this were The Guardian, both would be equally heinous.) But my guess is it’ll be the dogs. One of my guilty viewing pleasures is Channel 4’s Gogglebox, justified by my need to keep in touch with popular opinion. The main takeaway? Britons really love dogs.