Assisted suicide: Doing no harm?
It’s almost 80 years since our National Health Service came into being. In the words of the 1946 Act it was a service “designed to secure improvement in the physical and mental health of the people”.
It’s almost 80 years since our National Health Service came into being. In the words of the 1946 Act it was a service “designed to secure improvement in the physical and mental health of the people”.
The first phase of the eye-opening Employment Tribunal in the case of A&E nurse Sandie Peggie concluded earlier this month, with the case set to resume in July.
The pace of the 24-hour news cycle means nothing stays the focus for long. So, inevitably, the appalling revelations of Britain’s child rape gangs have dropped out of the headlines.
Alba’s Holyrood leader Ash Regan is deeply concerned about prostitution. Unlike some campaigners who talk about so-called ‘sex work’ as if it is any other kind of work, Regan is clear that many women involved in prostitution do not have full agency over their decisions.
On New Year’s Eve in 1384, Oxford scholar, theologian and church reformer John Wycliffe died in Lutterworth.