Dan Hitchens
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Senior editor @firstthingsmag | Co-author, Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Johnson (out in 2025) | https://t.co/yj4GPUYs00
Joined June 2015
Major unresolved problems with the Leadbeater bill: an A-Z guide. A is for Anorexia. Eating disorder charities and experts have warned that the bill leaves the door open for sufferers to qualify and receive an assisted death:.
1/ @vicderbyshire asked a simple question: why did you vote against every amendment eating disorder experts urged you to pass to close the anorexia loophole?. A thread on the many eating disorder experts she chose to ignore ⬇️.
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RT @Madz_Grant: A fantastic thread by Dan which will no doubt be very useful when the inevitable public inquiry into Britain's euthanasia r….
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The case for studying apparently useless subjects like STEM:
“Is the university functioning as a kind of tax-free pass-through organization?”. Read Clifford Ando’s piece in COMPACT:
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RT @JSMilbank: The rise of racial politics is a product of a materialistic politics, and a new pessimism about society and humanity. My lat….
thecritic.co.uk
You almost certainly read, think about and discuss race more in 2025 than you would have twenty years ago. Race has become a poisonous and politically contentious topic, and nowhere more so than in…
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RT @cmackinlay: Absolutely. This Private members Bill from @HouseofCommons comes to the @UKHouseofLords without a manifesto commitment or i….
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RT @DavidGHFrost: The assisted suicide Bill:.- was not in the Labour manifesto.- is not a govt Bill.- is on a matter of conscience. It was….
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Cartoonists on the assisted suicide bill (Spectator, Times, Telegraph):
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From @SSBullivant, the best thing I’ve read on the “quiet revival” of Christianity in England and Wales, its possible causes, and how sceptical to be about claims of a churchgoing resurgence:
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RT @lukedepulford: I wrote about how could King Edward III stop the 🇨🇳 mega-embassy and why we should all care. 👇.
politicshome.com
Of all the names linked to the Chinese mega-embassy saga, Edward III is an unlikely late entrant.
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Not enough has been said about Robert Jenrick’s speech on the Leadbeater bill. Some perceptive analysis of the safeguards, and then this unexpectedly moving conclusion:
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Guardian piece on “what terminally ill people want you to know about assisted dying” interviews 12 people, 9 of whom are @dignityindying campaigners (the organisation is not mentioned). #journalism
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“The old British ruling class maintained their empire with impressive efficiency; their replacements, Reactionary Whig Fogey impostors with degrees in PPE from Balliol, can scarcely organize an effective replacement bus service.”. Quite an essay:.
firstthings.com
On June 17, 1953, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper wrote to a friend: “I am now preparing a booklet which I hope (but perhaps it is too much to hope)...
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A man says he wants to die after being “abandoned by health professionals, moved from one waiting list to another,” ignored and given inadequate care. “I’ve gone beyond anger,” says his sister. “I just can’t believe that the UK would allow this to happen.” @kimleadbeater
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“I used to find this endearingly idealistic, assuming that he had probably got an exaggerated idea of love’s redemptive power from listening to too much Wagner. Now though, I think he was probably right.”. @Docstockk on the vindication of Roger Scruton:
unherd.com
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RT @BretVDB: In the finest moments of his Shakespeare commentaries, Samuel Johnson rises from critic to sage:
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