now the committee stage is over will the assisted dying bill get stuck in an election quagmire ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

Could this be the last meeting for the Leadbeater committee ?Final moves as the end draw near www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

Royal College of GP's accuses @thetimes.com of not present an accurate picture of their move to neutrality on assisted dying www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

We have a new petition calling on the Government to implement the Parky Charter -we need 100,000 signatures to get a debate in Parliament please sign and share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

can we trust opinion polls on assisted dying? yes, no, don't know or not if they are proceeded by a deeply biased statement intended to increase support for one viewpoint www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

great piece from Sasha Mudd in @prospectmagazine.co.uk - Beneath the objections there often lies something deeper: a belief that life has an intrinsic, absolute value and death is always a harm. I submit neither assumption stands up very well to scrutiny. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

I’ll be at the Nuffield Trust’s health summit today, on a panel about ‘end of life care’ including, but not focusing on, assisted dying. I hope to report back @prospectmagazine.co.uk -but you can watch here. events.zoom.us/ev/Ahm9SLEL2... I’m up at 4 pm but there’s lots of good stuff before then.

Leadbeater offers an olive branch to critics www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

Next week we'll hear from @crystaloldman.bsky.social, @sarahscobie.bsky.social, Dr Naomi Richards, @markmardell.bsky.social and Prof Libby Sallnow about the complex and often challenging landscape of end of life care. #NTSummit Sign up to watch our Summit livestream here: buff.ly/3EMgXuR

are opponents of the Leadebeater bill really trying to improve it - or just creating attack points for the media ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

Proposals to limit what doctors can say about assisted dying -or should that be 'expand what they should say" ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

Breaking news on assisted dying -Kim Leadbeater has tabled amendments which would tighten rules about what doctors say and do. including " doctors cannot raise in isolation the provision of assistance to die, but must set out any treatment .. available" Interested to know what critics think.

The merry death machine -the roller coaster designed to kill is plainly provocative but what is the artist trying to say ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

Is Danny Kruger trying to wreck the assisted dying bill just as the committee meets for the first time ? Leadbeater's supporters feel he's not a team player www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

this is both a 'new readers start here' piece and an attempt to forge a new way of writing-in praise of subjectivity as an aid to objective reporting.https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good-death/69017/how-reporting-on-assisted-dying-has-changed-my-views

As MP’s laud palliative care top prof tells @prospectmagazine.co.uk he ‘despairs’ that the Maskell committee will end up pressuring the govt into giving more cash when it is ‘resistant to change’ and needs a radical shake up. Heritic or prophet ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

‘I get asked regularly to kill people. Patients ask me all the time: “Please, can you kill me? Please, can you end my life? I’m sure you do it secretly, come on.” Read palliative care expert @drnwiggins.bsky.social answer in @prospectmagazine.co.uk t www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...