From the category archives:

Euthanasia-Assisted Suicide.

Live and Let Die.

June 20, 2010

In the beginning there was Adam and Eve and a big rock. Adam was much stronger than Eve. He could lift the big rock and drop it on her head. He didn’t need to threaten to do so, but Eve knew, and accepted the implied threat to her life. Adam held the power. A lot [...]

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Testementary Testosterone.

June 4, 2010

There is nothing so likely to induce a murderous rage in the most mild mannered of people as sibling rage over a last will and testament. Many a family can cite feuds going back over generations, centuries even, which commenced with the reading of the will. As children we prise precious pennies out of our [...]

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The Ribena Option.

May 27, 2010

Magna Carta, Ch 39: ‘No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or [...]

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That Straw Man’s Confidence Trick Dissected.

May 18, 2010

With what aplomb did Jack Straw throw back the cloak of secrecy over proceedings in the family court last year? How we did cheer. None louder than myself. Straw, the ‘modernising’ man of Justice who eschewed the trappings and symbols of the historic Lord Chancellor’s role, said: “Family courts play a crucial role in our [...]

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Mercy Killing?

February 1, 2010

The past week has seen one mother, Frances Inglis, jailed for life for murdering a son who was in a persistent vegetative state, and another mother, Kay Gilderdale, acquitted of the attempted murder of her daughter, whose suicide she assisted. The BBC has seen fit to mark these sad events by a ‘poll‘ – ‘vote [...]

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Life and Death.

January 7, 2010

In the era of what we are told is the revolution in journalism -  blogging – this becomes what we call, “a story“. Nick Robinson 6th January 2009. Nick Robinson’s disparaging gibe at the blogging world yesterday exposed the chasm which lies between ‘us’ and ‘them’. We define a story as something we are passionately [...]

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For Whom the Bell Tolls.

October 12, 2009

Back in Victorian times, death was never far from people’s thoughts thanks to the diseases and poor medicine of those times. You can see evidence of this in old sepia photos of sombre matronly women (including Queen Victoria herself) posing in their widow’s weeds. Back in those days the grim reaper was rushed off his [...]

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