Prof Shakespeare says vocal opponents don’t speak for the majority (Image: PA) Disabled people, unusually, are given abundant airtime and column inches to express our thoughts and concerns about assisted dying. While it’s always important for the voices of disabled people to be heard, I also worry about the false assumption that has been created … Read more

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir (Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Moscow’s UK ambassador said the use of Storm Shadow missiles means Britain is now “directly involved” in the war. It comes as Downing Street said had stooped to “depraved” levels after unleashed a suspected nuclear-capable rocket … Read more

Cold Weather Payments are worth up to £25 per week (Image: Getty) Thousands of households across the UK are urged to check their bank statements for a six-digit code for a . The () issues to eligible households to help pay their energy bills during bouts of very cold weather. The payments are worth up … Read more

Environment Secretary Steve Reed delivers a speech at the Country Land and Business Association rura (Image: PA) Environment Secretary Steve Reed has refused to apologise to farmers for the “anguish” he acknowledged the Government has caused by its inheritance tax raid. He said it is “hard to be sorry for trying to make the country’s … Read more

The ICC equates a democratically elected leader with blood-thirsty monsters. (Image: Getty Images) In the first shockwaves of the ICC`s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant, it`s important to hold onto some basic facts. is a sovereign nation, which suffered an unprovoked attack … Read more

A volcano in Iceland has erupted for the seventh time in a year (Image: Getty) A volcano on Reykjanes Peninsula has erupted for the seventh time since December, spewing lava through a newly opened 3km fissure named Sundhnukur. The eruption began late Wednesday night, November 20, with little warning, prompting and travel advisories.  The eruption … Read more