Three months ago, we were told that workers at the Uni of Sheffield’s AMRC had been overheard joking about making nuclear weapons. There couldn’t be anything to it – could there?
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I’ll be voting against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill today.
This deeply sensitive issue demands rigorous safeguards and investment in palliative care to protect vulnerable people.
My full statement here:
me, weeping: all I'm asking for is what this actually means, are you talking about debt or deficit, vs what baseline, who is making the forecast, you even changed the accounting convention
everyone : the BLACK HOLE is ONE HUNDRED BILLION POUNDS
🧵 A personal story: My 5 year old son requires palliative care for his gastro and bowel issues. I had to fight for that care. It took everything I had and the intervention of a skilled advocate, a charity CEO and the media to get it.
Britain needs a Prime Minister who'll uphold the cause of the oppressed, needy, and powerless in our society. It is these people - not privileged celebrities - who'd face pressure to die under an assisted suicide law. Britons who lack support to live will seek assistance to die.
In the late 1970s, deindustrialisation took place across the UK in favour of a financial services-driven service industry based in London. This was supposed to be the start of something wonderful. A thread 1/9
I studied Politics as part of my undergrad and no ideological position or historical analysis of the differences between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael could better explain it than this photograph.
The Leadmill says it’s fighting for the ‘soul of Sheffield’. Its original founders disagree.
For months, we've been trying to understand the true story behind one of Sheffield's biggest controversies. The result is this long read, by @vicky_afm.
https://t.co/TVii89HtWu