Neil Scolding

Emeritus Professor of Neurology at Bristol and
Visiting Professor of Medicine at Gulu University Uganda
(views expressed are my own)

[Michael Simmons @Simmons__]

Ohh dear

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Infanticide.

[Fr Mark Elliott Smith @MarkElliottSmi1]

@AJalsevac At least it's not Whoopi Goldberg.

[Thérèse Coffey @theresecoffey]

I'm pleased the majority of MPs decided not to press on with the flawed AD Bill. However, I was astonished that Lauren Edwards did not understand her own Bill and misled others. Twice she said the Bill explicitly did not apply to disabled people - which is simply not true🤦

[Neil Scolding @NScolding]

More democratically elected MPs voted against than for assisted suicide - how is that 'a bad day for democracy'?
Because it didn't give the answer you wanted?

[Neil Scolding @NScolding]

Polly Toynbee also -
“Another bad argument is that the frail will be intimidated into hastening the end of their lives so as not to be a burden on their children. Well, why not? ”
Is that really what we want Parliament to vote for?

[Neil Coyle @coyleneil]

Going to Parliament today to vote against the ‘Assisted Dying Bill’ - proposals which end of life care experts call ‘unsanctionable’.

The Bill’s backers told MPs last time: ‘we will improve safeguards/amend’ but railroaded plans & ignored concerns. https://t.co/dNnbXJloJ4

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day.

Tomorrow, the House of Commons will vote on passing legislation that would amend the Suicide Act 1961, to legalise medically assisted suicides.

This would greatly undermine suicide prevention efforts. MPs must vote no.

[Prof Dennis Hayes @ProfDHayes]

Excellent piece by @cricketwyvern

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

The degeneration of Nature, Science, NEJM, and Scientific American into woke propaganda dispensers (and their refusal to publish normie, centrist, common-sense responses) is a scientific scandal.

[Lord (David) Alton @DavidAltonHL]

The Scottish island of Iona, since the time of St.Columba (563 AD), has been one of most significant religious sites in Europe. Because of its solitude and spiritual significance, Iona is where the former Labour Party leader, John Smith, asked to be buried.

To erect, nearby, 91 wind turbines, 1000 feet high, taller than the Eiffel Tower and four times higher than Westminster’s Big Ben, would be an act of desecration and show no regard for the significance and beauty of Iona.

Scottish Power should go back to the drawing board.

[Neil Scolding @NScolding]

@holysmoke 'Through the Night' pretty much the last redoubt of the old R3

[Neil Scolding @NScolding]

Excellent letter from the Association of British Neurologists outlining the disastrous consequences of current government proposals to end clinical academic pay parity - ie pay senior clinicians who do research less than their NHS colleagues. https://t.co/zg0KnXOopE

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Aren’t you the minister for safeguarding women against violence?
And you have to apologise for what you tweeted after a fellow female politician was violently murdered?
Isn’t that a resigning matter?

[mohamed salah @SalahAlhayat]

وسائل الإعلام العالمية جمعت مشاهد تؤكد كيف ذُبح منتخب مصر داخل الملعب، وهكذا سُرقت منه المباراة بقرارات الحكم الفرنسي فرانسوا ليتكسييه، وتواطوء رئيس الاتحاد الدولي جياني ارچنتينو، وتخاذل رئيس الاتحاد المصري هاني أبو ريدة ..
لن يغيّر هذا الفيديو النتيجة، لكنه سيبقى وثيقة تذكّر الجميع بأن مصر لم تخسر أمام الأرجنتين وحدها، وسيظل شاهدًا على من ظلم، ومن تواطأ ومن تخاذل ..

[Teago Oliveira @teagoliveira]

A fifa vai ter que remover isso 350 milhoes de vezes

[David Paton @cricketwyvern]

Politically, Chagos seems like a marginal issue. People may not care much about the islands, but they do care about Govt paying £billions for the privilege of giving them away.

That is why this has cut through.

Chagos will prove an albatross for @andyburnham if he pursues it.

[Neil Scolding @NScolding]

Likewise, many congratulations Father Stephen! And congratulations also to the people of Brighton - a wonderful blessing for you

[David Paton @cricketwyvern]

Congratulations to Fr Stephen.

He follows Nicholas Breakspear (later Pope Adrian IV) as the 2nd Catholic Bishop to have been brought up around St Albans.
#snorbens

[Neil Scolding @NScolding]

Not quite the first child, since the Netherlands has been dispatching infants, under the notorious Groningen Protocol, for years.
But still a new and horrible low.

[teresa smith @treesey]

‘…the first child under the age of 12 has been euthanized in the Netherlands, according to revelations from the nation’s Health Minister’

Horror story from Holland

https://t.co/X259GNUX0h

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

All anyone needs to do is look at countries that have adopted this policy. It has become a slippery slope everywhere. I was once pro, after looking at all the facts & example… I no longer support it. Let’s have better palliative care.