What Kind of Country?

Sep 29, 1987 | Books

Marshall Pickering 1987 – Challenges the orthodoxies of all political parties and promotes an alternative which comes from neither left nor right. It transends party politics in advocating a new society of justice, equality and freedom.

For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.

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The Speech I Would Have Made On Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

The Speech I Would Have Made On Assisted Suicide...

Two weeks since the London Bus Crash: spinal brace helping the healing of a break in the spine. With thanks for messages of encouragement and the hope that other passengers and the driver are also on the mend.

Two weeks today since the London bus crash....

Why telling doctors to assist a suicide is wrong; why there is no such things as “a little euthanasia”; why Parliament should carefully study what has happened in other jurisdictions and not enact laws which can facilitate coercion, create fear among disabled and vulnerable people; and incrementally morph into laws which replace care with kill.

Why telling doctors to assist a suicide is...

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