Dan Hitchens
@ddhitchens
Senior editor @firstthingsmag | Co-author, Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Johnson (out in 2025) | http://danhitchens.substack.com
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…
1/ @vicderbyshire asked a simple question: why did you vote against every amendment eating disorder experts urged you to pass to close the anorexia loophole? A thread on the many eating disorder experts she chose to ignore ⬇️
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”:
We appear to have reasoned our way into an intellectual dead end, writes @kitwilsonwriter thecritic.co.uk/why-we-have-no…
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.”
I wrote an article about a disturbing conversation I witnessed this week in an Ontario hospital: linkedin.com/pulse/lawyers-… #MAID #healthlaw #endoflife #palliativecare
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
NEW: Tonia Antoniazzi won a landmark vote to decriminalise abortion. She talks to @siennamarla about being painted ‘as a monster’, and how the assisted dying bill she co-sponsors ‘may look like a completely different bill’ after changes in the Lords: politicshome.com/news/article/t…