‘The celebrity figurehead of the “assisted dying” campaign has unwittingly highlighted the crucial point that, even if a couple of doctors reckon that you’ve got only a few months left to live, they might well turn out to be wrong.’ telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/0…

Kim Leadbeater’s witness list was 80%-20% in favour of the bill’s supporters. 9 lawyers were invited (6 pro, 3 neutral), alongside 8 witnesses from other jurisdictions (all pro), academics, medics, etc. But who *didn’t* receive an invitation? Here’s an incomplete list:

Join leading human rights advocate Brent Haywood in this fascinating insight into how we can navigate the freedom of speech landscape of Scotland today. Tickets are free for this online event, but book quickly its likely to be very popular. tinyurl.com/443f3u68

In the context of a Facebook discussion, Sara said: (1) that a fetus is a child (2) that k!lling children is wrong (3) and thus she objects to abort!on. NHS Fife SUSPENDED her from her training placement. Scotland is in a free speech CRISIS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿‼️

Another day in the Assisted Suicide bill committee. A series of amendments to make it safer were rejected. The committee voted down amendments to ensure doctors can’t suggest AS to patients - even to children. 1/

MPs who vote for Assisted Suicide will do so knowing that vulnerable people will die, frightened people will be coerced, suicide rates—assisted & otherwise—will increase, doctor-patient trust will be undermined & the State will kill its own citizens. 🧵 1/ gbnews.com/opinion/assist…

News from the Assisted Suicide Bill Committee room - an eight hour session, which began with a warning we might have to sit through the night in future to make the deadline the Bill’s backers have set. I regret the haste we’re going at. Anyway, here’s what happened today.

Patients being denied the information needed to give #InformedConsent to assisted suicide. Committee voted AGAINST requiring the doctor to share risks and complications of assisted death drugs with patients.

Today the Assisted Suicide Bill committee voted to REMOVE the key safeguard in the Bill that MPs approved at Second Reading in November: the High Court judge who was to decide each application for an assisted death. 1/

#AssistedDyingBill takes a red pen to the founding principles of the NHS. How do I reconcile this gross power imbalance to my patients already on the wrong side of health inequality: their doctor now has power to facilitate their demise. Jenni Russell Prof. Mark Taubert Care Not Killing

''We’ve seen the NHS’s founding principles amended, the High Court protections ditched and now the timeline for the whole process changed. This isn’t how good laws are made.” Jess Asato MP quoted by Janet Eastham telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

💥MUST WATCH: Kim Leadbeater promised her Bill would have the “strictest safeguards anywhere in the world”. But at Committee Stage, which has just ended, over 300 amendments that would have protected vulnerable people & prevented abuses were REJECTED. Here are just some of them:

telegraph.co.uk/gift/0a32e9609… Ooooft! Say it like it is, why don't you?

A top lawyer has said Westminster assisted suicide legislation breaches the European Convention on Human Rights because of inadequate safeguards for disabled people. It comes as politicians at Holyrood and Westminster prepare to debate the issue. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

‘It's time that MPs gave up on this dangerous and discriminatory Bill and focused instead on improving healthcare and end-of-life care for everyone. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Sorry to labour point but this is the terrifying nub of it. You might reasonably think disabled people need *extra* safeguards when it comes to being helped by state to die; but the logic of "equality", when robotically applied, means THEY GET FEWER.

10 moments that revealed the truth about the Leadbeater Bill:

Please watch this excellent informative video about the risks of the assisted dying bill voting on Friday!

Dr Hugo Van Woeden's article summarises the latest version of the #AssistedDyingBill, following confirmation of the few amendments to be discussed tomorrow. MPs voting 'yes', are you ready to embrace the following into law?? 👇👇 Nikki da Costa Our duty of care UK The Labour Party Dan Hitchens

"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