
Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation impacts us all
Tasmania, Australia’s smallest state, like many other jurisdictions, is currently considering legalising voluntary assisted dying (VAD). It is of great concern that legislators are seeking to incorporate this into palliative and medical care. Voluntary assisted dying sounds like a description of what should be occurring in normal medical practice: clinicians recognising those who are dying […]

Big Tech doesn’t censor conservatives and other myths
For several years, I’ve been highlighting Big Tech bias when I encounter it, knowing that my ability to do so online may not last forever. I’ve received a lot of pushback to this. The many examples I’ve provided were algorithmic anomalies, I was told—and I may in fact be suffering from a victimhood complex. So […]

Retiring Scottish politician links IVF with euthanasia
Perhaps we should update that proverbial expression for brutal honesty, “out of the mouths of babes and sucklings”, to include “and retiring politicians”. After ten years in the Scottish Parliament, Conservative leader Ruth Davidson is moving to the British House of Lords as a Life Peer. She used the occasion to write an op-ed for […]

Germany will be forced to think about the future of parenthood
There was no population growth at all in Germany in 2020. Without migration (due to Covid-19), the German population will continue to decline. But why so few German babies?