David Pearce
@medavep.bsky.social
Fundraising & Marketing for Dignity in Dying & sister charity Compassion in Dying | 'Slick and well-funded' | Dog lover
It's funny how opponents of assisted dying are all like "no, don't listen to celebrities. We must listen to these experts who disagree with them".
Until, that is, a celebrity agrees with their position. 🤔
Until, that is, a celebrity agrees with their position. 🤔
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
It's funny how opponents of assisted dying are all like "no, don't listen to celebrities. We must listen to these experts who disagree with them".
Until, that is, a celebrity agrees with their position. 🤔
Until, that is, a celebrity agrees with their position. 🤔
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Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
'The elected chamber has approved assisted dying and it has the support of most voters. It will be disgraceful if it fails to become law because it is “talked out” by a clique of unelected peers.' 👏👏
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
'The elected chamber has approved assisted dying and it has the support of most voters. It will be disgraceful if it fails to become law because it is “talked out” by a clique of unelected peers.' 👏👏
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The trouble with Lords
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The Lords they are a-leaping to frustrate ministers | The Observer
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November 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The trouble with Lords
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When did it become a thing that clothes were "tactical"?
Every time I go on YouTube, I'm being encouraged to buy a "tactical hoodie" or "tactical weatherproof jacket".
Can you get a strategic jumper?
Every time I go on YouTube, I'm being encouraged to buy a "tactical hoodie" or "tactical weatherproof jacket".
Can you get a strategic jumper?
November 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
When did it become a thing that clothes were "tactical"?
Every time I go on YouTube, I'm being encouraged to buy a "tactical hoodie" or "tactical weatherproof jacket".
Can you get a strategic jumper?
Every time I go on YouTube, I'm being encouraged to buy a "tactical hoodie" or "tactical weatherproof jacket".
Can you get a strategic jumper?
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Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
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I believe the majority of my constituents in #Folkestone #Hythe & #RomneyMarsh agree we should grant asylum to those fleeing war and persecution – provided the system is fair and managed.
I spoke to one constituent, Janice, this week, who thinks that... 1/2
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I spoke to one constituent, Janice, this week, who thinks that... 1/2
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‘It’s wrong’: the Labour MP speaking out against the party’s asylum policy
As a well-informed MP on the frontline of the debate, Tony Vaughan’s views are particularly unwelcome to government
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November 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I believe the majority of my constituents in #Folkestone #Hythe & #RomneyMarsh agree we should grant asylum to those fleeing war and persecution – provided the system is fair and managed.
I spoke to one constituent, Janice, this week, who thinks that... 1/2
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I spoke to one constituent, Janice, this week, who thinks that... 1/2
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Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
"a pregnant woman doesn’t have absolute bodily autonomy.”
"Nigel has said he thinks the term limit of 24 weeks is too high. So we’d bring that down.”
On feminism, "increasingly, it’s become a code for an anti-family doctrine.”
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"Nigel has said he thinks the term limit of 24 weeks is too high. So we’d bring that down.”
On feminism, "increasingly, it’s become a code for an anti-family doctrine.”
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‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti-human’ – the startling theories of Reform MP Danny Kruger
He was a Conservative party big-hitter who wrote speeches for David Cameron and worked with Boris Johnson before he suddenly jumped ship. He talks family, flags and why Nigel Farage is ‘top dog’
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November 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
"a pregnant woman doesn’t have absolute bodily autonomy.”
"Nigel has said he thinks the term limit of 24 weeks is too high. So we’d bring that down.”
On feminism, "increasingly, it’s become a code for an anti-family doctrine.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"Nigel has said he thinks the term limit of 24 weeks is too high. So we’d bring that down.”
On feminism, "increasingly, it’s become a code for an anti-family doctrine.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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"America is British", "socialism is heaven". Good Charlotte Edwardes profile of Danny Kruger, in which he gets the opportunity to say what he really thinks. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"America is British", "socialism is heaven". Good Charlotte Edwardes profile of Danny Kruger, in which he gets the opportunity to say what he really thinks. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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King’s ransom bit.ly/48rKqGO what the Royal Family really costs as its income ratchets up from the Sovereign Grant after soaring Buckingham Palace costs and offshore wind
How much does the royal family really cost the British public?
The Windsors are the most expensive royal family in Europe, with coronations, weddings, funerals all funded by UK taxpayers. Norman Baker crunches the numbers
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November 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
King’s ransom bit.ly/48rKqGO what the Royal Family really costs as its income ratchets up from the Sovereign Grant after soaring Buckingham Palace costs and offshore wind
"State regulation should be to dignify and respect the freedom of individual choice, not deny it....For peers to seek to make it a legislative and bureaucratic bunfight is obscene."
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Unelected Lords are blocking assisted dying – this is a democratic outrage | Simon Jenkins
Second chambers are a good idea, but they should not be able to overturn clear decisions reached by an elected body, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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November 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"State regulation should be to dignify and respect the freedom of individual choice, not deny it....For peers to seek to make it a legislative and bureaucratic bunfight is obscene."
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Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
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Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
I'm reading an Observer piece about the PM's Bad Week and his "under-strapper's" plans backfiring. It compares No 10 to this...
#InfamyInfamyTheyveAllGotItInForMe!
#DownWithTheKids
#InfamyInfamyTheyveAllGotItInForMe!
#DownWithTheKids
a woman is standing in a doorway in a room with purple curtains and a candle holder .
Alt: the late Kenneth Williams playing Julius Caesar in Carry on Cleo when he pathetically laments: “Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me!” .
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November 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I'm reading an Observer piece about the PM's Bad Week and his "under-strapper's" plans backfiring. It compares No 10 to this...
#InfamyInfamyTheyveAllGotItInForMe!
#DownWithTheKids
#InfamyInfamyTheyveAllGotItInForMe!
#DownWithTheKids
Bill Clinton is "hot" 🤨
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Bill Clinton is "hot" 🤨
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Going to share a semi-regular gripe over euphemisms, this time “passed”. Saw a post talking about someone’s friend who passed, spent too long trying to work out what exactly they had passed until it clicked that they had died. Please, when I die, just say I died ok?
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Going to share a semi-regular gripe over euphemisms, this time “passed”. Saw a post talking about someone’s friend who passed, spent too long trying to work out what exactly they had passed until it clicked that they had died. Please, when I die, just say I died ok?
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📢Green gain from the Lib Dems in Canterbury CC by-election.
Reform third ahead of Labour and Tories facing wipeout.
#Canterbury #ByElection
Reform third ahead of Labour and Tories facing wipeout.
#Canterbury #ByElection
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
📢Green gain from the Lib Dems in Canterbury CC by-election.
Reform third ahead of Labour and Tories facing wipeout.
#Canterbury #ByElection
Reform third ahead of Labour and Tories facing wipeout.
#Canterbury #ByElection
Today the Lords start the process of debating over 900 amendments (579 of which laid by just 7 peers) to the assisted dying Bill. As they do, lets hope they have people like Ed front of mind.
#YesToDignity
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#YesToDignity
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Ed's life changed in the blink of an eye. She's using her final weeks to make her voice heard
Diagnosed with an inoperable and aggressive brain tumour, Ed is facing up to the end of her life, but says she wants to die with "self-respect and dignity", so she is backing the assisted dying bill g...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Today the Lords start the process of debating over 900 amendments (579 of which laid by just 7 peers) to the assisted dying Bill. As they do, lets hope they have people like Ed front of mind.
#YesToDignity
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#YesToDignity
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This just in: The most predictable thing that could have possibly happened today, has happened.
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Prince George joins Kate, King and Queen at Festival of Remembrance - BBC News
The royals attended the annual event at the Royal Albert Hall on the eve of Remembrance Sunday.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This just in: The most predictable thing that could have possibly happened today, has happened.
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‘Al could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
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percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
‘Al could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
Got a new phone, all the apps verify my new device no problem. Except one. Linked In.
Their paid ads platform and support are also third rate at best. Way worse than Meta.
Their paid ads platform and support are also third rate at best. Way worse than Meta.
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Got a new phone, all the apps verify my new device no problem. Except one. Linked In.
Their paid ads platform and support are also third rate at best. Way worse than Meta.
Their paid ads platform and support are also third rate at best. Way worse than Meta.
November 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In a worrying turn of events, an Android update removed the comma key in favour of just the emoji key.
You can turn it back on though
You can turn it back on though
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
In a worrying turn of events, an Android update removed the comma key in favour of just the emoji key.
You can turn it back on though
You can turn it back on though