🚨BREAKING BIG MOMENT! Burnham says assisted suicide debate should not take place until palliative & social care is properly funded. The PM is right, and his Labour MPs must now unite in opposition to the deeply divisive assisted suicide Bill & reject it at Second Reading.

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UnHerd: Adam James Pollock explains why the euthanasia of a child under 12 in the Netherlands is a stark warning of how assisted dying laws expand, and why MPs must reject the British assisted suicide Bill before it is too late.

‘Everywhere that euthanasia has been made legal, attempts to expand the eligibility of the law have rapidly been made.’ | Adam James Pollock

Euthanasia of child in Netherlands is a warning for UK

When it first came into force on 1 April 2002, the Netherlands’ euthanasia law permitted physicians to end a patient’s life without criminal liability. This would be provided that the patient was…

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thecritic.co.uk/the-last-thi... “MPs who wish to unite the Labour Party and put their country first should endeavour to make sure this awful Bill fails to receive its Second Reading.”

The last thing Labour needs | Adam James Pollock | The Critic Magazine

The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together…

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Revealing from the New Statesman: Andy Burnham is likely to oppose the assisted suicide Bill. Given the likelihood of Burnham returning to Westminster later this week, and a potential leadership challenge not long after, bringing assisted suicide back is not wise. @laurenedwardsmp.bsky.social

If you think Lauren Edwards and this assisted suicide bill will protect vulnerable people or those with disabilities, it’s worth knowing this MP has a very coloured history of using ableist slurs

Lauren Edwards MP@laurenedwardsmp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It is a great privilege to have come second in the ballot for Private Member’s Bills. After giving the matter a great deal of thought, I will be reintroducing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. You can read my full statement on this here or on my website: buff.ly/I78DfUX

The perpetrator of last night’s attempted beheading in Belfast is reportedly an asylum seeker from Sudan. Years of discontent about immigration into Northern Ireland is now bubbling to the surface | Adam James Pollock

Belfast knife attack reflects years of silence on immigration

Late on Monday evening, a man in the Kinnaird Avenue area of North Belfast was the target of a brutal attempted murder. A circulating video of the event shows the attacker sitting atop his…

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Hoping someone who has come high in PMB ballot might consider a Bill to ensure universal & fair access to palliative care. Desmond Swayne , Lauren Edwards MP @laurenedwardsmp.bsky.social , Dr Luke Evans @drlukeevans.org.uk It would be something that unites the whole community. #PalliativeCareForAll

The Other Half@otherhalforg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Backers of the Leadbeater assisted dying Bill want @laurenedwardsmp.bsky.social to take this Bill under her name, and push it through into law. That's why local residents in Rochester & Strood turned out this morning to share their opposition

We're delighted that @laurenedwardsmp.bsky.social is a staunch supporter of disability rights. We very much hope that she will not choose to bring forward an assisted dying bill which is opposed by every single disabled-led organisation in the UK.

Given @laurenedwardsmp.bsky.social left Twitter over the use of an ableist slur, it would be a really bad look for her to bring back an assisted suicide Bill universally opposed by disability & learning disability groups, who’d be put at grave risk by the Bill.

Dear @laurenedwardsmp.bsky.social As a community of disabled people across England, including your constituency, we hope you are not considering using your place in the ballot to table another Assisted Dying bill. This is just one reason why.

‘Cultural institutions are increasingly embracing “decolonisation” tactics, twisting the truth to fit their own political narratives’ | Adam James Pollock

British Museum’s postponed Jewish lecture is a surrender to activists

Is deciding to be neutral on any given issue still a political act? Nicholas Cullinan, director of the British Museum, has published a statement defending the postponement of a Jewish Culture Month…

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Green MP Carla Denyer's constituency office will function as normal while she takes time off for burnout — but if the office can operate without her, what exactly is she stepping back from? | Adam James Pollock

Why are so many MPs suffering from burnout?

Carla Denyer, the Green Party MP for Bristol Central, announced earlier this week that she would be taking several weeks away from Parliament due to burnout and “the mental and physical symptoms that…

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Is religious faith really incompatible with progressive beliefs? | Adam James Pollock

Why are the Lib Dems so afraid of Christianity?

The Liberal Democrats have always prided themselves on being the party of tolerance and pluralism in British politics. Their “values” include the claim that an active state should “ensure that no one…

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Kim Leadbeater still doesn’t understand the dangerous holes in her bill. Assisted suicide is more than "just a choice," writes Adam James Pollock 👇 buff.ly/z7A0ueq

Northern Ireland is plagued by draconian licensing laws. Could the construction of a Lidl pub mark a positive shift? | Adam James Pollock unherd.com/newsroom/can...

Can Lidl save Northern Ireland’s pubs?

There are few things that the Northern Irish love more than alcohol and bargains. On the rare occasions when the two coincide, we are at our happiest. It is therefore exciting news that Lidl is about…

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Successive governments have all overseen the decline of Britain’s nuclear capacity but a deal with Rolls-Royce could mean Labour is finally turning the tide | Adam James Pollock

The Critic: Adam James Pollock argues that the rejection of assisted suicide has been so decisive that the issue is now settled. https://thecritic.co.uk/assisted-suicide-has-been-dealt-a-fatal-blow/

Morning Star: Adam James Pollock argues that the dangers the assisted suicide Bill poses to vulnerable people are too great for it to become law. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/assisted-suicide-bill-unravels-lords-highlight-risks-vulnerable

The Critic: Adam Pollock argues assisted dying just is another form of suicide, and, like all forms of suicide, it ought to be discouraged, not enabled by the state. https://thecritic.co.uk/rebranding-suicide/

On Wednesday, a British man was jailed for selling poisonous chemicals online to allow people to commit suicide. Will this remain illegal if the assisted dying bill becomes law? | Adam James Pollock unherd.com/newsroom/cou...

Could selling deadly chemicals become legal under assisted dying?

On Wednesday, a British man was jailed for 14 years for selling poisonous chemicals online to allow people to commit suicide. Miles Cross sold the fatal drugs to four people, two of whom, tragically,…

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'The inheritance tax reversal is yet another policy that Labour seems unable to carry out' | Adam James Pollock unherd.com/newsroom/lab...

Labour’s inheritance tax U-turn is a hollow victory for farmers

Yesterday it was reported that the Labour government has once again made a U-turn on a policy proposal, this time on the inheritance tax raid on family farms. Under the amended proposals, the…

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Are any of Britain's heritage institutions serious about historical accuracy? | Adam James Pollock unherd.com/newsroom/eng...

English Heritage’s Christmas revisionism is a sign of cultural decline

Something is amiss in Britain’s heritage institutions. History, whose events were once set in stone, is consistently being altered retrospectively by those whose role it is to ensure that the truth…

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‘We were all clambering through brambles and over rusty barbed wire in search of the elusive hare’ | Adam James Pollock unherd.com/2025/11/northern-irelands-last-huntsmen/

Northern Ireland’s last huntsmen

‘All this could soon be gone.’ Arterra/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

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Badenoch risks her conjecture about leaving the ECHR being just that. ✍️ Adam James Pollock

Kemi's Northern Ireland Brexit blunder will continue to haunt her

In June, Badenoch commissioned her own report into withdrawing from the ECHR, referred to as the Lawfare Commission.

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It is yet another reason for British firms to stop doing business in Northern Ireland. ✍️ Adam James Pollock

Northern Ireland is still paying a heavy price for Brexit

This bungled Brexit deal is yet another reason for British firms to stop doing business in Northern Ireland

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Why Northern Ireland hates Paddington. ✍️ Adam James Pollock

Why Northern Ireland hates Paddington

Paddington’s values have very little to do with what Britishness means in Northern Ireland

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First attempt at bread making. Recipe for ‘no knead’ bread by Adam James Pollock (on Twitter). Smells Devine 😀

‘Britain’s welfare state today supports more weight than George IV’s trouser braces.’ ✍️ Adam James Pollock www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-...

Gout is no longer the disease of kings

In contemporary Britain, gout has shed its aristocratic cloak and instead wrapped itself around the shoulders of the working class.

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