Mark Mardell
@markmardell.bsky.social
Now one of the presenters of 'Movers & Shakers' podcast & blogging for Prospect 'a good death' on assisted dying. Notionally retired ex BBC R4 presenter,North America editor,Europe ed, chief pol corr. Huge music fan.
now the committee stage is over will the assisted dying bill get stuck in an election quagmire ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
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March 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
now the committee stage is over will the assisted dying bill get stuck in an election quagmire ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Could this be the last meeting for the Leadbeater committee ?Final moves as the end draw near www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Doubts grow over assisted dying bill safeguards
A new amendment seeks to ensure disabled people are protected from abuse. But is it enough?
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March 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Could this be the last meeting for the Leadbeater committee ?Final moves as the end draw near www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Royal College of GP's accuses @thetimes.com of not present an accurate picture of their move to neutrality on assisted dying
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Are GPs neutral or not? The royal college’s controversial switch to neutrality on assisted dying
The change in position means no bodies representing medical professionals now oppose the legislation
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March 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Royal College of GP's accuses @thetimes.com of not present an accurate picture of their move to neutrality on assisted dying
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We have a new petition calling on the Government to implement the Parky Charter -we need 100,000 signatures to get a debate in Parliament please sign and share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter"
We want the government to take the decisive five steps set out in the Movers and Shakers' "Parky Charter" and to fulfil the Health Secretary’s promises.
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March 13, 2025 at 7:16 AM
We have a new petition calling on the Government to implement the Parky Charter -we need 100,000 signatures to get a debate in Parliament please sign and share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
can we trust opinion polls on assisted dying? yes, no, don't know or not if they are proceeded by a deeply biased statement intended to increase support for one viewpoint www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
You can’t trust opinion polls about assisted dying
The public is generally in favour of legalising assisted dying. But different surveys get different results
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March 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
can we trust opinion polls on assisted dying? yes, no, don't know or not if they are proceeded by a deeply biased statement intended to increase support for one viewpoint www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
great piece from Sasha Mudd in @prospectmagazine.co.uk - Beneath the objections there often lies something deeper: a belief that life has an intrinsic, absolute value and death is always a harm. I submit neither assumption stands up very well to scrutiny. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Why death is not always the greatest harm
In times of conflict and struggle we laud those who put principles and self-determination ahead of mere survival. Why should it be different with assi...
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March 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
great piece from Sasha Mudd in @prospectmagazine.co.uk - Beneath the objections there often lies something deeper: a belief that life has an intrinsic, absolute value and death is always a harm. I submit neither assumption stands up very well to scrutiny. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
I’ll be at the Nuffield Trust’s health summit today, on a panel about ‘end of life care’ including, but not focusing on, assisted dying. I hope to report back @prospectmagazine.co.uk -but you can watch here. events.zoom.us/ev/Ahm9SLEL2... I’m up at 4 pm but there’s lots of good stuff before then.
March 6, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I’ll be at the Nuffield Trust’s health summit today, on a panel about ‘end of life care’ including, but not focusing on, assisted dying. I hope to report back @prospectmagazine.co.uk -but you can watch here. events.zoom.us/ev/Ahm9SLEL2... I’m up at 4 pm but there’s lots of good stuff before then.
Leadbeater offers an olive branch to critics www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Assisted dying bill: Leadbeater backs some safeguards
The bill’s author has offered her support for two amendments from Labour MPs who voted against it
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March 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Leadbeater offers an olive branch to critics www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Reposted by Mark Mardell
Next week we'll hear from @crystaloldman.bsky.social, @sarahscobie.bsky.social, Dr Naomi Richards, @markmardell.bsky.social and Prof Libby Sallnow about the complex and often challenging landscape of end of life care. #NTSummit
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March 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Next week we'll hear from @crystaloldman.bsky.social, @sarahscobie.bsky.social, Dr Naomi Richards, @markmardell.bsky.social and Prof Libby Sallnow about the complex and often challenging landscape of end of life care. #NTSummit
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are opponents of the Leadebeater bill really trying to improve it - or just creating attack points for the media ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Assisted dying bill: what’s the point of all these amendments?
Opponents of the bill are debating at length amendments that they know will be defeated. There’s a reason for this
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March 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
are opponents of the Leadebeater bill really trying to improve it - or just creating attack points for the media ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Proposals to limit what doctors can say about assisted dying -or should that be 'expand what they should say" ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Kim Leadbeater tables amendments to the assisted dying bill
The proposals on how doctors advise and assess patients include mandatory training on identifying coercion
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February 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Proposals to limit what doctors can say about assisted dying -or should that be 'expand what they should say" ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Breaking news on assisted dying -Kim Leadbeater has tabled amendments which would tighten rules about what doctors say and do. including " doctors cannot raise in isolation the provision of assistance to die, but must set out any treatment .. available" Interested to know what critics think.
February 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Breaking news on assisted dying -Kim Leadbeater has tabled amendments which would tighten rules about what doctors say and do. including " doctors cannot raise in isolation the provision of assistance to die, but must set out any treatment .. available" Interested to know what critics think.
The merry death machine -the roller coaster designed to kill is plainly provocative but what is the artist trying to say ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
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January 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The merry death machine -the roller coaster designed to kill is plainly provocative but what is the artist trying to say ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Is Danny Kruger trying to wreck the assisted dying bill just as the committee meets for the first time ?
Leadbeater's supporters feel he's not a team player www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Leadbeater's supporters feel he's not a team player www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Could Danny Kruger wreck the assisted dying bill?
The Conservative MP is opposed to assisted dying in principle. But he says his goal is to make Kim Leadbeater’s bill as safe as possible
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January 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Is Danny Kruger trying to wreck the assisted dying bill just as the committee meets for the first time ?
Leadbeater's supporters feel he's not a team player www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Leadbeater's supporters feel he's not a team player www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
this is both a 'new readers start here' piece and an attempt to forge a new way of writing-in praise of subjectivity as an aid to objective reporting.https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good-death/69017/how-reporting-on-assisted-dying-has-changed-my-views
January 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM
this is both a 'new readers start here' piece and an attempt to forge a new way of writing-in praise of subjectivity as an aid to objective reporting.https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good-death/69017/how-reporting-on-assisted-dying-has-changed-my-views
As MP’s laud palliative care top prof tells @prospectmagazine.co.uk he ‘despairs’ that the Maskell committee will end up pressuring the govt into giving more cash when it is ‘resistant to change’ and needs a radical shake up. Heritic or prophet ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Assisted dying: is our palliative care system too conservative?
Professor Sam Ahmedzai is an expert in end-of-life care—and thinks the British practice is stuck in the past
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December 15, 2024 at 11:54 AM
As MP’s laud palliative care top prof tells @prospectmagazine.co.uk he ‘despairs’ that the Maskell committee will end up pressuring the govt into giving more cash when it is ‘resistant to change’ and needs a radical shake up. Heritic or prophet ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
‘I get asked regularly to kill people. Patients ask me all the time: “Please, can you kill me? Please, can you end my life? I’m sure you do it secretly, come on.” Read palliative care expert @drnwiggins.bsky.social answer in @prospectmagazine.co.uk t www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Will assisted dying divert funding from palliative care?
Dr Natasha Wiggins, an expert in end-of-life care, is worried that rhetoric surrounding the bill will encourage fears about dying in agony
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December 10, 2024 at 2:15 PM
‘I get asked regularly to kill people. Patients ask me all the time: “Please, can you kill me? Please, can you end my life? I’m sure you do it secretly, come on.” Read palliative care expert @drnwiggins.bsky.social answer in @prospectmagazine.co.uk t www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...