Alexander Chula

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Alexander Chula

Alexander Chula

@alexanderchula

🇹🇭 🇬🇧 medical doctor, writer, lapsed classicist | author of 'Goodbye, Dr Banda: Lessons for the West from a Small African Country' (Polygon, May 2023)

London Katılım Aralık 2011
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Alexander Chula
Alexander Chula@alexanderchula·
Thank you John for hosting me on the excellent @thinkingclasses podcast, and for such kind words about my book!
John Gillam@thinkingclasses

Check out the latest Thinking Class with @alexanderchula when it broadcasts tomorrow. Alex and I talk about how a small African country (Malawi) can teach Britain more about the fruits of its civilisation than its current crop of cultural elites would care to know. His book, Goodbye Dr. Banda, was published in 2023 and reviewed by no less than @NigelBiggar and Roger Scruton (prior to his passing and before Alex found a publisher). To get endorsements from such eminent thinkers tells you just how well written the book is. While I cannot match Lord Biggar's and Sir Scruton's heft, I can say hand on heart that it's one of the best book's I have read of its kind.

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Dan Hitchens
Dan Hitchens@ddhitchens·
@kimleadbeater Now it’s confirmed there will be assisted deaths due to poverty, could you comment on how frequent this is likely to be? Do you think in the hundreds or the thousands? x.com/nmdacosta/stat…
Nikki da Costa@nmdacosta

Lord Harper gives Lord Falconer a third chance to say that someone driven to end their life by poverty is wrong and not a free choice. Lord Falconer: "It's their choice... can we go on..."

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Prof Katherine Sleeman
Prof Katherine Sleeman@kesleeman·
Responding to concerns about people requesting assisted death *because* of poverty, Lord Falconer makes the point that generally people who request AD are from high socioeconomic groups. I wrote a thread last year on the inadequacy of this argument👇 x.com/kesleeman/stat…
Dan Hitchens@ddhitchens

Lord Falconer confirms it again. Under the Starmer assisted suicide bill, some people will be given lethal drugs by the state because they are poor. “Your financial position might be an element.” Key excerpts and full video: Lord Falconer: “Choice is the key thing. Your financial position might be an element in what makes you reach a decision.” Lord Harper: “I am slightly incredulous at this, so I just want to make sure I understand him correctly. He’s talking about…someone’s autonomy. If you are in a financial position where you feel that you are unable to live properly because you have no money, and as a result of that you decide that you want to end your life, that isn’t a freely reached decision. That is being done because of your circumstances. Is he really saying that he’s OK with poor people ending their lives with the assistance of others because they’re poor? Because that is what it sounds like.” Falconer: “I am saying that what this bill does is allow you to make your own decision.” Harper: “I think people would be horrified that he is suggesting that somebody because of their financial circumstances should be more likely to end their life than somebody who isn’t.” Falconer: “I’m saying it’s their choice.”

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Prof Katherine Sleeman
Prof Katherine Sleeman@kesleeman·
I’m concerned by some of the statements made in yesterday’s debate on the TIA Bill about marginalised groups and assisted dying. 🧵
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Alexander Chula
Alexander Chula@alexanderchula·
Why do advocates of assisted dying still enthuse over contributions which add nothing new to the debate? There is no argument here that was not already a commonplace when the bill was proposed, nothing that addresses the serious, complex concerns raised as the bill has progressed
Kim Leadbeater MBE MP@kimleadbeater

Thank you to @AnthonyHorowitz writing in @NewStatesman for sharing his thoughts on the importance of giving terminally ill adults like his Mum choice and dignity in their dying days: newstatesman.com/politics/socie…

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Molly Guinness
Molly Guinness@mollylguinness·
Those in favour of assisted dying should be careful about sneering. This excellent point by @BarbaraRich_law reminds me of this excellent piece by @alexanderchula thecritic.co.uk/the-grim-reali…
Barbara Rich@BarbaraRich_law

I wish men and women who pen clichés like “dastardly relatives will arrange Agatha Christie-style exits for their elderly aunts” would once in their lifetime read something, anything contemporary and true about financial and testamentary abuse of older people and open their eyes

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Alexander Chula
Alexander Chula@alexanderchula·
@BarbaraRich_law @AnthonyHorowitz Excellent thread. @AnthonyHorowitz is also lucky not to have met the patient of mine whose heroin-addicted children could not even wait 48 hours for her to die before prising the rings from her fingers. The detachment from the reality of many people's lives is very saddening.
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Barbara Rich
Barbara Rich@BarbaraRich_law·
@AnthonyHorowitz No one uses the word “dastardly” in contemporary speech or prose other than with a little smirk of affectation, a signal that they are comic villains who exist only in fiction. If only that was the case. They are dishonest, opportunistic people. You are lucky not to have met them
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Barbara Rich
Barbara Rich@BarbaraRich_law·
I wish men and women who pen clichés like “dastardly relatives will arrange Agatha Christie-style exits for their elderly aunts” would once in their lifetime read something, anything contemporary and true about financial and testamentary abuse of older people and open their eyes
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The New Statesman@NewStatesman

Opponents of assisted dying are denying people freedom to determine their own end, @AnthonyHorowitz writes newstatesman.com/politics/socie…

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Dan Hitchens
Dan Hitchens@ddhitchens·
The 5 best articles written about the AS bill: (With apologies to dozens more on the longlist)
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John Gillam
John Gillam@thinkingclasses·
Check out the latest Thinking Class with @alexanderchula when it broadcasts tomorrow. Alex and I talk about how a small African country (Malawi) can teach Britain more about the fruits of its civilisation than its current crop of cultural elites would care to know. His book, Goodbye Dr. Banda, was published in 2023 and reviewed by no less than @NigelBiggar and Roger Scruton (prior to his passing and before Alex found a publisher). To get endorsements from such eminent thinkers tells you just how well written the book is. While I cannot match Lord Biggar's and Sir Scruton's heft, I can say hand on heart that it's one of the best book's I have read of its kind.
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Alexander Chula
Alexander Chula@alexanderchula·
Yes, this was a superb piece. Look out for @Docstockk 's forthcoming book on this subject, Do Not Go Gentle. What I've read of it so far is masterly, as you would expect. I note now available for pre-order...
Dan Hitchens@ddhitchens

3. @Docstockk on a much-abused word. “The legalisation of euthanasia does nothing to increase dignity but provides new ways to undermine it, and especially in the present non-ideal context where social care is already underfunded and overstretched”. unherd.com/2024/11/theres…

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Dan Hitchens
Dan Hitchens@ddhitchens·
1. @alexanderchula, fiercely, precisely and movingly, on politicians and (his) patients. “These are lives damaged through abuse, neglect, deprivation, loneliness. The question is whether death is a valid solution.” thecritic.co.uk/the-grim-reali…
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Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown@GordonBrown·
It is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on improved palliative, social and end-of-life care theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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