I can't read through the paywall but "overdiagnosis" is a loaded term implying that the conclision is written before the evidence is reviewed. The word is not used in the Guardian repo… (View Post)

That sounds awful and I am sympathetic. I am still opposed to the AD bill though. The safeguards against coercion by staff and/or relatives are not robust enough. A lot should be done to improve End … (View Post)

Isn't this how legislation that has moral and ethical issues but no particular political partisanship has been handled in the past? I am thinking of how in the Sixties David Steeel's bill o… (View Post)

Wasn't that equally true of the legalisation of abortion too? "Private Members’ Bills (PMBs) are bills introduced by Members of the Commons or the Lords who are not government ministers. Wi… (View Post)

Or perhaps simply because this is the parliamentary norm, and it allows ministers to take different positions on it while remaining in government. So Mahmood can be against and Streeting for AD but b… (View Post)