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"I've had people say to me, 'if my life was like yours I'd want to kill myself'" Tanni Grey-Thompson tells Nick Robinson political "rhetoric" causes "lots of problems" for disabled people Listen to #PoliticalThinking on BBC Sounds 🎧 bbc.in/4dI0ENh

We One! A year of weekly posts but will I go on? writing.kierandodds.com/p/one-year-on-…

You can see why they called it the Eden estuary. Photo made in May 2025. St Andrews Links The R&A

Lots of free articles accessible this week to celebrate a year on here. No AI generated content. Any typos are a mark of authentic humanity. kierandodds.substack.com/p/one-year-on-…

We have raised concerns about existing deficiencies in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. We believe the bill in its current form lacks adequate protections for patients and professionals. Full statement: ow.ly/EOhP50W692q

Cross-cultural photography (be it religious, ethnic, economic or political cultures) requires time and tact to push past the superficial, or even the mythic or false, to find something new. writing.kierandodds.com/p/7-others

1. Important medical bodies—the Association for Palliative Medicine, British Geriatrics Society, Royal College of Psychiatrists and Royal College of Physicians—have said the bill fails to protect the vulnerable. x.com/RCPhysicians/s…

Two 35-week-old babies. Loved beyond measure, but no less valuable if they weren't.

Powerful intervention from Gordon Brown I hope MPs listen

Seagulls were inspirational in the 1970s but nowadays they are a menace. They rarely make my feed but a few have been flocking recently. Last month, the Scottish Government announced a 'Gull Summit' to tackle a scourge of the avian menaces, with MSPs decrying the dangers to the

My letter NOT published in The Guardian on #assistedsuicide #AssistedDying

Today is the day. MPs please Imagine an airplane control panel. Can you see all the warning lights flashing red. The RCP, the RCPsych, RCPath, the APM, the BGS, anorexia charities, abuse charities, and all disabled charities and many more. There is NO - zero - professional

.Ashley Dalton MP who is a Health Minister and who herself has metastatic cancer, explains why she will vote against the assisted dying bill. All MPs voting today should read this 👇

.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.

'No life still valuable to the State will be wantonly destroyed.' The Ministry of Justice reassures the people about proposed assisted dying in 1933. I thought this was a fake article but you can read it here in the The New York Times archive. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1… #AssistedDyingBill

1/ Today's AS supporters will instinctively reject this connection but as the Jewish sociologist Philip Rieff showed, Hitler "won" at large, post WW2, because those who thought they'd defeated him absorbed his view that some lives aren't worth living (i.e. the foundation of AS).

The similarities to today’s rhetoric are striking.