Assisted dying group accused of trying to βbuyβ debate by MPs by asking supporters to donate towards social media push for parliamentary petition Dignity in Dying is raising money for social media push for parliamentary petition It calls for assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adultsβ...
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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Show us you’re a low tax Chancellor, Rishi π₯π©π©π₯
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Show us youβre a low tax Chancellor, Rishi By Daily Mail Comment Published: 20:40 EDT, 15 May 2022 | Updated: 02:11 EDT, 16 May 2022 When the Left can taunt the Tories for being the party of high tax we really are through...
PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Brave Deborah James is showing that we can have a ‘good death’ π₯π©π©π₯
As Deborah James faces death with awe-inspiring bravery, she says she wants βone last cuddleβ with her husband and their two young children. The former deputy head teacher who is suffering terminal bowel cancer says she hopes to βslip away listening to my family, to...
DANIEL JOHNSON: Boris has shown he’s a far better European than any of his snide Continental critics π₯π©π©π₯
On Wednesday, Boris Johnson signed mutual security pacts with both Sweden and Finland, deals that bind us to come to their aid should Putin turn on them as he has Ukraine. There was no hiding in the petticoats of the EU, or waiting for the...
ANDREW NEIL: Democracy is on the march again – and Putin must be chewing the carpet in the Kremlin π₯π©π©π₯
The democracies of the world are getting their act together at last. The story of the first two decades of this, so far, rather sad century has been one of autocratic advance and democratic retreat. But the democracies are now breathing new life into old...
DAN WOOTTON: The public dissemination of Peter Andre’s private parts is downright hypocritical π₯π©π©π₯
Oh, how easy it has been to laugh. The size of Peter Andre‘s manhood β speculated as anything from an acorn to a chipolata to a remote control Ββ has become part of British water cooler conversation thanks to its inclusion in the most ill-advised...
JAN MOIR: Giving women ‘period leave’ makes us look the weaker sex π₯π©π©π₯
Draft reforms being put forward mean women in Spain will be offered three days of menstrual leave every month. This is not uncommon in some Asian nations, but it is the first time a country in the West has embraced the idea. Some may regard...
BEN LAZARUS: If Tories don’t help young voters get on property ladder, roof may fall in on Party π₯π©π©π₯
When a certain journalist returned to London in 1994 after a stint abroad, he was horrified by the housing market. ‘Is it not frightening that my generation is expected to go into debt to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds to live within...
ROBERT HARDMAN: The Queen is still very much in charge π₯π©π©π₯
The last time the Heir to the Throne opened Parliament, Britain was still subjecting prisoners to hanging, drawing and quartering. A new ship, the Beagle, was taking shape in a dockyard in the Thames, from where it would eventually set sail carrying a young naturalist...
Honouring IRA trio just weeks ago, the woman who could tear the UK apart, writes BARBARA DAVIES π₯π©π©π₯
To her Sinn Fein supporters, at least, last weekβs elections marked the crowning achievement of Michelle OβNeillβs life, with the 45-year-old republican now on the brink of making history if she is appointed Northern Irelandβs first nationalist leader. But the uncomfortable truth about how far...