Euthanasia
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
The accidental case against assisted dying
Rabbi Jonathan Romain undermines the argument that he is trying to make
Why the Lords can vote against assisted dying
It is right and proper for the Lords to challenge deeply problematic legislation
Why Slovenia rejected assisted suicide
Voters learned about the grim realities of assisted dying in practice
Embrace hope, reject assisted suicide
Legalising assisted suicide would open a Pandora’s Box of horrors
There’s no romance in euthanasia
On the rose-tinted perspective presented in The Thursday Murder Club
The god that failed
The NHS is a moral covenant that will soon be entirely broken
A dying culture
With the barbarians at the gate, this vote was a last sacrifice to the NHS
We should dissent from our allies on assisted suicide
Their examples show the dangers of legalisation
Spinning doctors
Supporters of assisted suicide are repelling rather than persuading doctors
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order