John Smyth, who died in 2018 aged 77, was born in Canada to parents who were members of the cultish Plymouth Brethren. The ...

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It is time to end the “slippery slope” of the current law on assisted dying ...

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Donald Trump likes to talk up his links to Britain, his Hebridean mother and Scottish golf courses. But the appreciation has largely been one way: David Lammy’s description of the president elect as a ...

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Last month, the UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy paid a low-key, two day visit to China, in the hope, according to the Foreign Office (FCDO), of bringing consistency to the bilateral relationship.

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One standard response to any proposal whatsoever to legalise assisted dying is to warn of “a slippery slope”. It often does not matter what the proposal itself is, the stock reaction will be the same: ...