Tomorrow, the 29th November 2024, the House of Commons debate the Assisted Dying Bill. Already the media is full of hand-wringing MPs commenting on the ‘difficulty’ of the decision. We are meant to empathise but in doing so, we have to remember that the Bill is an attempt to increase the degree of autonomous decision-making … More The hardest decision is yet to come.
Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car). Now the prompts from WordPress recycle and fresh questions do not appear, I have to answer the ones I rejected answering the first time round. Times like now when I have no project blogs ready to go, I pick apart the … More Why do we define the personal by the items that you considerable yourself capable of financing? It is a pernicious way of reducing the person to the status of a commodity.
The White Heat of WES or the STREETING of the Blair Witch Project Two days ago Wes Streeting outlined the approach the Starmer government will take to implementing its key pledge to voters – the relaunch of the project called The National Health Service, although it is yet to be seen how clear are the … More The ‘White Heat’ of WES or the STREETING of the ‘Blair Witch Project’.
Geoff works in a charity bookshop as a volunteer and often buys me little books that don’t sell but he thinks might interest me. Yesterday he brought this little book first published in Leipzig, Germany, but undated, with a written brief life of Kolbe by Richard Grant (whom I have failed to trace) in German, … More J.K. Rowling asserts when answering questions about her religious beliefs that she ‘believes in biology’: what I learned on Geoff finding for me a book on Georg Kolbe, who felt forced into such beliefs.
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