Nicholas Cole
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@quilldir
British Historian of American History. Director of the Quill Project at Pembroke College (https://t.co/1Y5jRhzds7).
Lord Falconer: financial considerations may apply "there's only so much money to go around"
If GCSE’s move online it will be a catastrophe. Citing “preparing for exams” schools will dump what little remains of books and pens and stuff our poor addicted children even further down the internet at great cost to their education, mental health and safety. @ofqual
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson originally wrote a fierce condemnation of slavery into the Declaration of Independence, only for the Continental Congress to remove it before signing the final document? @quilldir Nicholas Cole, of @PembrokeOxford, joins host Savannah Eccles Johnston on Season 3, Episode 7 of 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 to talk about the complex slavery debate leading up to July 4, 1776. Listen, bit.ly/4dLYuKY, or watch, bit.ly/3BTJ5e7, to learn more. #podcast
Former senior judge Baroness Butler-Sloss stresses that doctors can be wrong about terminal prognoses, and life & death decisions demand extreme caution.😥
At a clinical teachers forum today for a session on the implications for undergraduate medical teaching from a change in the law on #assisteddying. There was a loud gasp from the audience of experienced medical educators when this slide was shown. Comments revealed shock at how minimal training will be for most doctors (including psychiatrists and GPs who are arguably most likely to be involved), despite the gravity and irreversibility of the act. Also noted was the fact undergraduate training is not mentioned at all in the impact assessment.
The Health and Social Care Committee’s evaluation of palliative care in England is out. The table of contents alone is pretty devastating. committees.parliament.uk/publications/5…
More Medical Professionals Oppose Assisted Dying than Support it The poll by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow also found doctors would not be able to ensure a patient seeking an assisted death was not being coerced telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…
More Medical Professionals Oppose Assisted Dying than Support it The poll by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow also found doctors would not be able to ensure a patient seeking an assisted death was not being coerced telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…
