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I wouldn't wish my father's death on anyone – assisted dying should be legal in the UK |
I would have been so grateful if someone could have shortened my father's death to save him from great pain, writes Alan Rusbridger. I respect others feel apprehensive about a change in the law, but it is time for MPs to summon up the courage and follow public opinion |
Parliament will debate assisted dying laws in the UK this week |
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If our prisons are at breaking point, why are prisoners given 12 months still there 19 years later? |
Imprisonment for public protection sentences were introduced by New Labour in 2005 as a way to tackle prisoners who posed a risk of harm to the public. But, as Peter Stanford, director of the Longford Trust, explains, murderers are now being let out before minor offenders and a sentence with no maximum time served is having a horrific human cost in an already crumbling system |
Today, there are still 2,734 IPP prisoners with no release date |
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A letter to my friend Hanif Kureishi after the terrible accident that changed his life forever |
As someone who has known the author of 'My Beautiful Laundrette' and 'The Buddha of Suburbia' for over 40 years, Robert McCrum reflects on how his friend's life was changed irrevocably by a fall in Rome two years ago. The accident left Kureishi paralysed – yet in many ways, it has allowed the writer to become his true self |
The author poses for a photograph ahead of the Venice Literary Festival in 2015 |
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Sinwar's death shows the horror of October 7 was a terrible tactical mistake by Hamas |
As Israel's No 1 enemy is killed in Rafah, his masterminding of last year's massacre will go down as a fatal mistake for the militant organisation, says Mark Almond. If only he had played his hand differently... |
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| We can't stand Musk – but what he did this week is astounding |
If the Tesla CEO would simply focus on his spacefaring efforts instead of antagonising people on social media, he may find that the world – and his investors – would be much happier, writes James Moore |
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