HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
ASSISTED dying is legal in only a handful of countries. Proponents of the policy believe that people with severe terminal illnesses should be allowed to have a licensed doctor end their lives if they so choose.
A common assumption among liberals is that only the deeply religious or wildly conservative would oppose such a thing. Not so.
In fact it was only a year ago that Parliament overwhelmingly voted down a proposed assisted dying Bill.
Gisele Pelicot said ‘shame must change sides.’ We may think we agree, but, argues LOUISE RAW, society still has some way to go
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
Austerity in a red tie is still austerity, warns RAMONA McCARTNEY of the People’s Assembly – rally with us to demand different choices


