Sometimes we just need to do something for Nick, argues Adam James Pollock thecritic.co.uk/nick-30-ans-wa…

Not a single airport on the island of Ireland is accessible by rail. I’m glad that plans are now emerging for a rail halt at one airport, but it is frankly embarrassing that this level of basic infrastructure brings “huge excitement” to the woman allegedly running the country.

It is about time that Britain reassessed the European Convention on Human Rights, argues Adam James Pollock thecritic.co.uk/leaving-the-ec…

👋 Leaving the ECHR really is within touching distance. The @criticmag mentioned the findings of our latest paper co-authored by Suella Braverman MP and Guy Dampier on Why and How to Leave the ECHR. The cross party support is there, it's time to go. thecritic.co.uk/leaving-the-ec…

The Critic: In the film The Thursday Murder Club, euthanasia is presented as loving and peaceful. The reality couldn't be more different. Adam James Pollock thecritic.co.uk/theres-no-roma…

Both left and right have shifted on the issue of the European Court of Human Rights, argues Adam James Pollock thecritic.co.uk/leaving-the-ec…

Little Margo has fallen asleep in the sink

I’ve set my desktop calendar back to when we used to be a real country

7 hours of debate, peers in their 90s speaking in the chamber, and now Lord Alton recording his speech while recovering from spinal injuries. The Lords are showing real commitment in scrutinising the assisted suicide Bill!

I have just eaten the largest oysters of my life

It’s my 27th birthday today Thankfully for another year, and blessed with a life full of love and purpose.

Another important debate today on assisted suicide. Hopefully peers follow the inspiration of Lord Alton and continue to passionately oppose the Bill!

Chilling. If the MPs pushing this Bill once wanted to allow doctors to raise assisted suicide with children, imagine where it could go next. Former Deputy PM Thérèse Coffey is right to sound the alarm.

Lord Frost is right: legalising assisted suicide isn’t a small change. Once we accept that some lives are expendable, we enter utilitarianism’s logic - and in that world, none of us is safe.

Lord Patten is right. Our supposedly neutral Government continues to give this Bill help. Today the Govt. has recalled the Lords during recess, a step usually reserved for national emergencies, to give it additional time outside sitting Fridays. Shameful.

There is a spectre haunting the fancy supper Adam James Pollock

Having some friends for dinner