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Mark Mardell @markmardell.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

now the committee stage is over will the assisted dying bill get stuck in an election quagmire ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

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Mark Mardell @markmardell.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Could this be the last meeting for the Leadbeater committee ?Final moves as the end draw near www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

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Doubts grow over assisted dying bill safeguards

A new amendment seeks to ensure disabled people are protected from abuse. But is it enough?

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Mark Mardell @markmardell.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

can we trust opinion polls on assisted dying? yes, no, don't know or not if they are proceeded by a deeply biased statement intended to increase support for one viewpoint www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

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You can’t trust opinion polls about assisted dying

The public is generally in favour of legalising assisted dying. But different surveys get different results

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Mark Mardell @markmardell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

great piece from Sasha Mudd in @prospectmagazine.co.uk - Beneath the objections there often lies something deeper: a belief that life has an intrinsic, absolute value and death is always a harm. I submit neither assumption stands up very well to scrutiny. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

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Why death is not always the greatest harm

In times of conflict and struggle we laud those who put principles and self-determination ahead of mere survival. Why should it be different with assi...

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Mark Mardell @markmardell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I’ll be at the Nuffield Trust’s health summit today, on a panel about ‘end of life care’ including, but not focusing on, assisted dying. I hope to report back @prospectmagazine.co.uk -but you can watch here. events.zoom.us/ev/Ahm9SLEL2... I’m up at 4 pm but there’s lots of good stuff before then.

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Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk · 01/03/2025

Next week we'll hear from @crystaloldman.bsky.social, @sarahscobie.bsky.social, Dr Naomi Richards, @markmardell.bsky.social and Prof Libby Sallnow about the complex and often challenging landscape of end of life care. #NTSummit Sign up to watch our Summit livestream here: buff.ly/3EMgXuR

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Mark Mardell @markmardell.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Breaking news on assisted dying -Kim Leadbeater has tabled amendments which would tighten rules about what doctors say and do. including " doctors cannot raise in isolation the provision of assistance to die, but must set out any treatment .. available" Interested to know what critics think.

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Mark Mardell @markmardell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The merry death machine -the roller coaster designed to kill is plainly provocative but what is the artist trying to say ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

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Mark Mardell @markmardell.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Is Danny Kruger trying to wreck the assisted dying bill just as the committee meets for the first time ? Leadbeater's supporters feel he's not a team player www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

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Could Danny Kruger wreck the assisted dying bill?

The Conservative MP is opposed to assisted dying in principle. But he says his goal is to make Kim Leadbeater’s bill as safe as possible

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Mark Mardell @markmardell.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

this is both a 'new readers start here' piece and an attempt to forge a new way of writing-in praise of subjectivity as an aid to objective reporting.https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good-death/69017/how-reporting-on-assisted-dying-has-changed-my-views

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Mark Mardell @markmardell.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

As MP’s laud palliative care top prof tells @prospectmagazine.co.uk he ‘despairs’ that the Maskell committee will end up pressuring the govt into giving more cash when it is ‘resistant to change’ and needs a radical shake up. Heritic or prophet ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

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Assisted dying: is our palliative care system too conservative?

Professor Sam Ahmedzai is an expert in end-of-life care—and thinks the British practice is stuck in the past

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Mark Mardell @markmardell.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

‘I get asked regularly to kill people. Patients ask me all the time: “Please, can you kill me? Please, can you end my life? I’m sure you do it secretly, come on.” Read palliative care expert @drnwiggins.bsky.social answer in @prospectmagazine.co.uk t www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

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Will assisted dying divert funding from palliative care?

Dr Natasha Wiggins, an expert in end-of-life care, is worried that rhetoric surrounding the bill will encourage fears about dying in agony

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