The heart of the argument, in my view (full piece here telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…)

.Kim Leadbeater MBE MP you are misleading the House before today’s vote. You know the Royal College of Psychiatry - the experts in capacity & coercion - has explicitly opposed your bill. It breaks my heart that you would use a sleight of hand to mislead MPs and the public in this way.

Feel the same way about the UK euthanasia law under debate today. The opponents have been valiant, but the larger problem is that UK proceduralist, Scrutonian conservatism was incapable of generating the culture war that should have happened years ago.

A shameful day

Devastated at the #AssistedDyingBill passing through the House of Commons - a tiny majority of 23 on a Private Member's Bill is no way to pass through legislation that will drastically alter how Disabled people trust and engage with healthcare professionals.

MPs have just voted in favour of the Assisted Dying Bill. Those who govern us have decided the elderly and ill may die, as may babies. In short the most vulnerable may face death because of their vulnerability. This is not civilisation. It’s barbarism.

We will fight this bill at every stage in the House of Lords. We halved its majority in the House of Commons at third reading, and one day we will extinguish the idea that there are some lives that are not worth living.

Disgusted that Jess Phillips, who is well informed about coercive control, domestic violence, and vulnerability voted for the assisted dying shitshow. Shame on the lot of them.

This is not a manifesto bill. This is not a money bill. This is not a bill which the House of Commons has passed twice in two consecutive sessions. Peers have the absolute constitutional right to reject it.

One thing I have learnt from some years in politics, victory or defeat are rarely final. So you keep on fighting.

Alexander Horne If the House of Lords abdicates its constitutional powers in these circumstances, it has no reason to exist.

In Britain, you can give people drugs to end their life, but not sell them cigarettes. A woman can end her baby’s life 10 minutes before it's born. This country will save money killing the vulnerable but spend millions keeping Axel Rudakabana safe & well in jail. What a mess.

This week hasn’t felt like a policy change or legislative tinkering. It’s felt like a noxious shift in Britain’s entire moral setting.

We will

"Now, splendidly, everything had become clear. The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off. It was the Modern Age in arms." After this week I feel like Evelyn Waugh at the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939. The politics of 'progress' has

The *Health Secretary* is retweeting this.

Africa accounts for only 4% of global carbon emissions despite having 17% of the world's population.  Yet Western institutions keep telling us we can't use our own resources for development.  The World Bank says we "no longer have an opportunity" to develop using fossil fuels.

Touching the Assisted Suicide Void firstthings.com/touching-the-a… Dan Hitchens lifts the dark veil of the assisted suicide polemic. As a palliative care physician, thecritic.co.uk/the-grim-reali… Alexander Chula’s example is all too familiar. The foolishness of MPs leaves me speechless.

Excellent piece by Dan Hitchens in First Things Amazing how the psychopathic origins of assisted dying get so overlooked. Hard not to see our legislators in a similar light, given their indifference to professional concerns about the vulnerable. firstthings.com/touching-the-a…