Alithea Williams

Pro-life campaigner. Erstwhile historian, into (liturgical) cooking, calligraphy, singing, and brightly coloured dresses. Views my own.

[Alithea Williams @AlitheaWilliams]

@PaulKohlerSW19 Thank you. I've just moved back into your constituency, so very glad to see you're not supporting this dreadful Bill!

[Care Not Killing @CNKAlliance]

Nothing says “safest and most robust” like being called into question by a slew of professional bodies (including medical royal colleges) and the bill's Lords sponsor tabling more than 70 amendments to address some of its flaws.

[SPUC Pro-Life @spucprolife]

Incredibly disappointing that an MP is using her ballot spot to bring back this dangerous, divisive Bill, instead of something that would help people live well. Support has already drained away, and this shows just how desperate the assisted suicide lobby are. We will fight again, and we will defeat it.

[Alithea Williams @AlitheaWilliams]

@BritishGas I've just moved into a property where you supply gas (so I don't have my own account). The meter isn't displaying anything. How do I get this fixed please? Can't see any way of contacting without an existing account...

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

For the first time since 1994, the Pope is personally carrying the Cross for all 14 Stations of the Cross, as Pope Leo XIV leads the Via Crucis at Rome’s Colosseum in the first Good Friday of his Pontificate.

[Kathleen Stock @kathleen_stock1]

Incredible review of my new book Do Not Go Gentle in the Daily Mail, from avowed supporter of Dignity in Dying Bel Mooney: "I gladly admit she has all but changed my mind."

Kathleen Stock on Assisted Dying ... it degrades us ALL https://t.co/dhq0ZKFhb7 via @MailOnline

[Kathleen Stock @kathleen_stock1]

Today is publication day for my book DO NOT GO GENTLE: The Case Against Assisted Death.

Kim Leadbeater's bill was the catalyst for writing it, and at the time, it felt like the task was urgent.

Back then, the positive stories about assisted death sounded to me like fairytales. I wanted to explore the reality of assisted death more deeply. Justifications offered by supporters were so often mindless mantras about rights and "choice", but I wanted to see how it all fitted together, and what choices it gave to vulnerable people in reality.

The writing period was a strange time. Every day I faced the fact of mortality, the nature of pain and suffering, and the darker sides of human nature. Yet I was also completely uplifted by the selfless compassion that humans can show to one another, when life is ebbing away.

This week, Leadbeater's bill runs out of time. There is already talk by pro-MPs and lobbyists of flooding the private members' bill ballot, so that a similar bill arrives in the next parliamentary session. In the meantime, the public has some time to think properly about what kind of society we actually want.

Is it one where state-sponsored death is treated as a solution to social ills? Or can we stand together to get something better, and far less bleak? Though times are hard, I still hope for the latter. I also hope that my book will be widely read, and especially by those tempted by fairytales.

[Nikki da Costa @nmdacosta]

Esther Rantzen says MPs need to "invoke the Parliament Acts" and force an identical bill, with all its flaws, on to the statute books. They're looking for 200 MPs willing to do that to their most vulnerable constituents. A 🧵on their plan 1/

https://t.co/aueQogoJpr

[Nikki da Costa @nmdacosta]

🚨Assisted Dying Bill🚨

Every bill this session that has received Royal Assent and went through Commons Public Bill Committee took longer in the Lords.

So it was never realistic to expect the Lords to complete THREE stages in the time the Commons had for Committee alone.

And that's before you factor in that it is the longest most complex Private Member's Bill in the history of PMBs, was written in two weeks, with no consultation, or prior policy development, is skeletal and gives "sweeping, unspecified and unjustified powers" to any future government.

[Alithea Williams @AlitheaWilliams]

Beautiful and moving requiem today for Professor Jack Scarisbrick, wonderful historian and inspirational co- founder of @LifeCharity. Proud to represent @spucprolife but personally have fond memories of Jack and Nuala hosting me and other @prolifestudents founders.

[Alithea Williams @AlitheaWilliams]

As his daughters said, a mighty oak has fallen, but the forest he planted will live on. Rest in peace.

[Alithea Williams @AlitheaWilliams]

Beautiful requiem today for Professor Jack Scarisbrick, renowned historian and inspirational co-founder of @LifeCharity. Proud to represent @spucprolife but also have fond memories personally of Jack and Nuala hosting me and other @prolifestudents founders.

[David Smith MP 🌹 @dsnorthnorth]

A powerful argument by @Docstockk that demonstrates the philosophical links - and the very real dangers - that unite the pro-euthanasia and pro-abortion up to birth movements. A must read:

https://t.co/v2hcr5lPF5

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

Bizarre article from @dignityindying’s Prue Leith, who thinks Sarah Mullally has “led” a “filibuster” (she has spoken twice), that Mullally proposed “200…amendments” (actual figure: zero), and that the bulk of amendments have been tabled by “just seven peers” (actual figure 50+)

[Alithea Williams @AlitheaWilliams]

Lord have mercy

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

The Spanish state failed this rape victim. So it will help her to kill herself instead. There are no depths to this horror. https://t.co/f8jeNRdjfE

[Miriam Cates @miriam_cates]

I still can’t believe Parliament has legalised abortion up to the moment of birth. We live in a country where it is illegal to hunt a fox - or indeed to sell a drinking straw made of plastic - but lawful to kill a human baby. We have lost our way.

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

Today is the feast of the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, 'Lady Day'. In England it was once the spring quarter-day, when contracts would begin and servants took new jobs, and until 1752 it was also the start of the New Year. A day for new beginnings, new life of many kinds.

[Kevin Yuill @historykev]

Slovenia shows that rolling back #assistedsuicide is happening. The Slovenian parliament legalized assisted suicide in July 2025. A group of citizens collected 46k signatures to require a referendum on the assisted suicide bill. On November 23, 2025, the Slovenian people rejected it by a 53.46% margin.

[SPUC Pro-Life @spucprolife]

Very powerful speech from Baroness O'Loan on what the devastating consequences of decriminalised home abortion up to birth are going to be.

Watch and share.

[Tim Stanley @timothy_stanley]

Stella passed the law that banned prayer in a public place!!!!!!

NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE!!!