assisted dying
Portrait of the week: Labour’s ‘plan for change’, falling productivity and 20,000 wolves in the EU
Home The Labour government announced a ‘Plan for Change’ that it refused to call a reset. Sir Chris Wormald was…
‘I was much more disposable than I believed’: an interview with Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson is enjoying himself back at The Spectator. ‘My place of former employment,’ the former editor booms as he…
How to get on the housing ladder
It is always interesting to watch the debates that roil a nation. So far as I can see, the current…
Letters: Labour’s attack on farmers
Losing the plot Sir: Your leading article ‘Blight on the land’ (23 November) is right to call out the hypocrisy…
Who chooses assisted suicide in Canada?
Sign of the times A petition for an immediate general election gathered 2.7 million signatures in five days. What are…
Letters: How to support the dying
Life support Sir: If the Terminally Ill (End of Life) Bill is passed into law we will have crossed the…
Wild Wes: Streeting is causing trouble for Starmer
Avote on assisted dying was supposed to be one of the easiest reforms for Keir Starmer’s government. To many, including…
Justin Welby shouldn’t have resigned
There is no proper reason for the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. No iniquity was proved against…
The case against assisted suicide
Those in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill insist they’ve addressed critics’ principal concerns and that…
Portrait of the week: Justin Welby resigns, interest rates cut and Trump announces appointments
Home Justin Welby resigned as Archbishop of Canterbury, after not reporting to the authorities what he knew in 2013 of…
The 38 candidates to be Oxford’s chancellor
Being Cambridge, I thank God that we have no nonsense about electing our chancellor. We have had a blameless, unchallenged…
Letters: Why does the Navy have more admirals than ships?
Flag waving Sir: Just wondering if you can explain why the Aboriginal flag is flown along side the Australian flag.…
Letters: The case for assisted dying
Craic down Sir: If Ireland had been investing in infrastructure as Ross Clark writes (‘Bog down’, 21 September), Dublin would…
A chillingly seductive glimpse of assisted dying
A few weeks ago, I was present when my aunt, a Canadian citizen born in the UK, chose to die…
Other worlds, other lives
A scientist finds a way to access other realities and bequeaths the secret to her daughter. But a dangerous adversary is on the trail
Canada’s assisted dying horror story
My favourite Martin Amis novel was his 1991 book Time’s Arrow. It is a pyrotechnically brilliant work in which all…
Assisted dying is a slippery slope
What are your thoughts on assisted dying and assisted suicide? That’s the question asked by a Health and Social Care…
Letters: Don’t let the parish perish
Parish problems Sir: Emma Thompson draws attention to a serious problem in the Church of England (‘Power to the parish’,…
Letters: The lure of lorry driving
Driving force Sir: As a long-distance UK lorry driver I am very aware of the issues raised by Rodney Pittam…
Can doctors be 'neutral' on assisted dying?
The British Medical Association (BMA) has dropped its opposition to assisted dying after a landmark vote. In doing so, it…
The disturbing campaign to legalise assisted dying
Assisted dying looks closer than ever to becoming law in the United Kingdom. Both the House of Lords and the…
A Spectator debate: should euthanasia be legalised? Douglas Murray vs Sam Leith
Four years ago, the Assisted Dying Bill was overwhelmingly defeated in parliament. The euthanasia debate hasn’t disappeared, however. One recent…
At death’s door
It is a sunny Saturday afternoon in Covent Garden and we are all learning how to kill ourselves. The venue…
Letters: In defence of firefighters; Shipman and assisted dying; Lord Chatterley’s useless gamekeeper
What firefighters do Sir: Leo McKinstry’s vicious, misleading article ‘Out of the ashes’ (12 September) shows that he has no…
