James Harris is director of campaigns and communications at Dignity in Dying
Tomorrow, the former Lord chancellor Lord Falconer will table a Private Members’ Bill in the House of Lords to legalise and safeguard doctor assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults.
If enacted, it will prevent dying Britons from having to travel abroad to die, and prevent others who are either unwilling or physically or financially unable to make the journey from having to take matters into their own hands domestically. Read More
In a letter to every Conservative MP, group chairman Ben Harris-Quinney said privatisation could endanger “the financial stability of Post Offices” in rural areas by separating Royal Mail further from the 11,500-network.
Condemnation has come from all quarters. Governments, NGOs and customers who have been wringing their hands saying “we must put a stop to this – but how do we do it?”.
YouGov’s poll comes after 
In my mind democracy is not so much a system of governance, but rather the result of a system of governance. It appears to me, and many others, that in the past three to four decades the word democracy, despite retaining its dictionary definition, in practice has become something else altogether.
In his article Boris riffles through the pros and cons of EU membership and ends on the point that one of the consequences of Britain leaving the EU would be our recognising that “most of our problems are not caused by ‘Bwussels’, but by chronic British short-termism, inadequate management, sloth, low skills, a culture of easy gratification and under-investment in both human and physical capital and infrastructure”.
Writing on his blog, Jerry Hayes said that if the prime minister were to criticise the absence of legislation which would allow an in-out referendum, it would be “a thoroughly futile and pointless exercise” which would make the Tories “look like incompetent fools more interested in a stunt to save their own miserable skins”.
For the pro union camp, Gordon Brown will make a 