Dan Hitchens

Major unresolved problems with the Leadbeater bill: an A-Z guide. A is for Anorexia. Eating disorder charities and experts have warned that the bill leaves the door open for sufferers to qualify and receive an assisted death: x.com/ChelseaRoff/st…

Fr Ray Blake buried today: low Mass, Old Rite, no choir, no homily, as modest as the man himself. I kid you not, as the coffin was laid before the altar, the SatNav on someone's phone went off. It said, "you have arrived at your destination." RIP.

“We’ve invited in a whole class of savvy corporate raiders who know how to loot UK Plc – and get away with it.” Powerful indictment from @guscarter: spectator.co.uk/article/how-pr…

Just one objection to this—very sharp—@kitwilsonwriter piece arguing that “It does not seem as if the twenty-first century has offered any insights that weren’t better articulated decades ago”:

So many stories like this, about the normalisation of AS. “Even after the patient agreed to a three-month period to try to improve his condition, the physician was suggesting the patient have a MAiD consult anyway. To my knowledge, the patient had never formally requested MAiD.”

On Assisted Dying she says this Interesting contrast with Lord Falconer who thinks the Lords shouldn't cause much trouble Given how narrow the commons vote is, and the lack of absolute majority in the Commons, the Lords would be perfectly entitled to reject it outright