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Dan Hitchens

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Dan Hitchens

@ddhitchens

Senior editor @firstthingsmag | Co-author, Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Johnson | Newsletter: danhitchens.substack.com

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Dan Hitchens
@ddhitchens
Mar 17
First vote was 70-56 the other way. It’s becoming really clear that this kind of legislation falls apart under scrutiny. Time to move forward and confront the huge challenges facing social care, palliative care and the NHS.
Andrew Learmonth
@andrewlearmonth
Mar 17
BREAKING: MSPs reject the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill by 69 to 57.
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Dan Hitchens
@ddhitchens
Jun 24, 2024
Surely the most withering line ever written about therapy culture: ft.com/content/4ada5d…
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Dan Hitchens
@ddhitchens
Jan 31, 2025
It’s been said that the next UK political scandal is probably already happening in plain sight. And it is. It’s been happening all this week at the assisted suicide bill committee. A thread:
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Dan Hitchens
@ddhitchens
Nov 7, 2024
Replying to @kitwilsonwriter
catholicherald.co.uk/obituary-david…
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Dan Hitchens
@ddhitchens
Jan 13, 2025
Martin Clunes: “Now we’ve got this assisted dying bill where, I’ve got to say, they’re just slagging off palliative care. Let’s save money by having everybody just f--- off and die. And at your own expense. Oh, and by the way, you can’t pass your farm on.”
Martin Clunes: ‘If you said Kylie Minogue had buttocks like a racehorse, you’d be hearing from her...
From telegraph.co.uk
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Dan Hitchens
@ddhitchens
Aug 28, 2022
Letter of the year contender in the Guardian
Dan Hitchens
@ddhitchens
Jun 10, 2025
The Leadbeater bill is on a knife-edge; but if it passes, you can expect in 10-15 years to hear its backers saying, “Of course, in retrospect…” and “Hindsight is 20/20” and “Had we known then what we know now…” Thread on what we know now, June 10 2025:
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Dan Hitchens
@ddhitchens
Mar 9, 2025
Nothing showy or emotive here, but still the best speech I can remember from any living parliamentarian.
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Dan Hitchens
@ddhitchens
Oct 11, 2021
When it comes to defining neoliberalism, HSBC’s marketing department continue to make the rest of us look like amateurs
Dan Hitchens
@ddhitchens
Mar 18, 2025
Naz Shah explains that she has to leave early: the sitting has been extended to 10pm and her hearing aids need recharging—without them she can’t hear. “I have raised this issue repeatedly with the bill’s sponsor and the committee and it saddens me that I am unable to continue.”
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Dan Hitchens
@ddhitchens
Sep 16, 2025
I’ve read this five times and it certainly looks like the editor of @JOE_co_uk calling for the elderly to commit suicide to save the Exchequer money.
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Dan Hitchens
@ddhitchens
Feb 9, 2025
Last week four Labour MPs warned their colleagues they weren’t being given the full picture on the assisted suicide bill. If anything the MPs understated it. Here are 10 things we’ve learnt from the committee stage which Leadbeater and allies have studiously avoided mentioning:
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Dan Hitchens
@ddhitchens
Feb 12, 2025
There you go. People will be handed lethal drugs because their care is too expensive.
Danny Kruger
@danny__kruger
Feb 12, 2025
Replying to @danny__kruger
At the end @Rebecca_SPaul and I managed to get Kim Leadbeater to admit that under her Bill a person would be able to get an Assisted Death for the sole reason of saving their relatives money. 3/3
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Dan Hitchens
@ddhitchens
Jan 21, 2025
Extraordinary opening to the assisted suicide committee, so testy that the chair had to intervene. Before the committee was closed to the public we learnt: —Motion to sit without public scrutiny was only proposed last night without explanation —Kim Leadbeater’s reasoning is
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