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On 17 June, Labour MP Lauren Edwards introduced a new assisted dying bill in the House of Commons. The second reading debate — when MPs vote on whether the bill should proceed — is set for 11 September 2026. You may feel you've heard all this before. You have. This is, in almost every meaningful way, the same Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill that Kim Leadbeater first brought forward in 2024. The bill was scrutinised more heavily than any private member's bill in parli

On 17 June, Labour MP Lauren Edwards introduced a new assisted dying bill in the House of Commons. The second reading debate is set for 11 September 2026. If you feel a sense of déjà vu, that's because you should. This is the same Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill that Kim Leadbeater brought before Parliament in 2024. The one that spent months being picked apart in the House of Lords. The one that generated more amendments than any bill in parliamentary history — o

Ann Macfarlane has died at the age of 87. She was the oldest disability activist I knew, and one of the wisest. Ann was born in 1939, into a world where disabled people were largely invisible — segregated in institutions, or kept at home with no real means to join in. She spent years in hospital wards and care homes. Through sheer determination, she made her way out: to a job, to a home of her own, and onto the long road to independent living. She then spent the rest of her l