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A heroin dealer where I live has just been given a thirty year sentence for peddling the lethal drug. He admitted guilt and apologised. So be it. But when a gun dealer sells a gun, knowing it can be lethal (and with no background check to ensure the buyer is not a homocidal maniac), he …
A simple blood test could be used to predict whether a person is likely to die within the next five years – even if at the time of the test, they are well. Researchers tested the blood of more than 17,000 generally healthy people for the presence of 106 biomarkers, molecules that are indicative of …
I was telling an acquaintance about hitch-hiking around the United States in the early 60’s. He asked me what I thought had changed in the intervening period. The most startling difference is, from my perspective, the decline in mutual trust and its concomitant breakdown in social cohesion. In the early sixties I was able to …
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To The Independent Assisted dying has been having quite a lot of coverage lately. The Belgians are being fair to children, offering them an escape from a horrible death. In my first marriage I had two sons who were born, arguably, into a permanent vegetative state. Neither had any senses or was ever able to …
61% of British voters are in favor of reintroducing the 50p top rate of income tax, and only 26% are against it. 40% don’t care if the levy doesn’t raise any money – they want it reimposed on moral grounds. (YouGov/The Times) Wisdom of the masses. Yes, they are right. Trickle-down economics was always a …
