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UK-based membership of the Swiss assisted dying centre Dignitas has grown by 50% in the last five years, new figures show. In 2024, there were 2,231 members of non-profit Dignitas (full name DIGNITAS – To live with dignity, die with dignity) compared to 1,430 in 2019. Membership – a prerequisite to having an assisted death… Read more »
Tom Gordon MP has put forward an amendment to the Terminally Ill Adults Bill to reduce the deadline for the Government to introduce assisted dying from four years to three. Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision have welcomed the amendment. The first draft of the Bill set the maximum time the Government could take… Read more »
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Jacob Rees-Mogg claims we have ten years after Brexit to negotiate a free trade agreement in which the UK can carry on with zero tariffs. But the argument makes no sense on its own terms and experts in this area of international law are clear that it does not do anything like what he is claiming.
This royal wedding, spare a thought for the smallest, most hard-done by minority: reluctant constitutional monarchists, who baffle royalists and are condemned by republicans. They are horribly embarrassed by all the wedding nonsense, but don’t even get to demand, intuitively, that we should just scrap the whole thing. They have to grin and bear it.
