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It is just under a year and a half ago that I found myself writing a piece called ‘A Black Friday’.
Assisted Suicide
Recent opinion pieces
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James Mildred
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Peter Ladd
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Children not safe online warns National Crime AgencyThe head of the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned that the environment online is not safe for children to use.
Pornography
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Couple sue surrogate mother who refused to abort babyA couple from California are suing their baby’s surrogate mother after demanding that she have an abortion after the baby was found to have a heart defect. She refused and went on…
Abortion
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens in response to safety concerns
Artificial Intelligence
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Disability campaigners call for delay to assisted suicide billAn open letter to Prime Minister Andy Burnham from disability rights group Assist Us To Live has urged him to fix social and hospice care before considering assisted suicide legislation in Parliament.
Assisted Suicide
Press Releases
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Watermarks used to stop AI cheatingArtificial intelligence company Anthropic has announced that it will implement a watermarking system to show when text has been generated by AI.
Artificial Intelligence
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Government-funded Scottish 'conversion therapy' helpline only took four calls in 3 monthsA Scottish ‘conversion therapy’ helpline, which has received almost £230,000 from the Scottish Government since 2024, only took four calls in a three-month period, leading to it being dubbed ‘Scotland’s most expensive…
Freedom of Speech
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Meta fined $567m over child safetyMeta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has been ordered to pay a fine of $567 million by a U.S. judge over their failure to warn people about the dangers of…
Pornography
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AI used to create new biological virusesArtificial intelligence has been used to create entirely new biological viruses in the laboratory for the first time.
Artificial Intelligence
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Single-sex spaces guidance comes into forceNew guidance on single-sex spaces such as toilets and changing rooms comes into force today. This guidance means that these spaces should be organised by biological sex, and not gender identity.
Transgender
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High Court rules puberty blocker trial can beginA controversial trial of puberty blockers for children aged 11 and 12 can now start after an attempt to stop it was thrown out by the High Court.
Transgender
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Fix palliative care before debating assisted suicide says PMPrime Minister Andy Burnham has said that fixing the funding of palliative care must come before any debate on assisted suicide.
Assisted Suicide