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A Different Kind of Power review: Jacinda Ardern's political memoir is merely a warm embrace

1 week ago | standard.co.uk | Melanie McDonagh

Culture | BooksThe Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Melanie McDonagh1 minute agoIt seems a pity that the Lib Dem leader Ed Davey nabbed the title, Why I Care, for his recent memoir, because it would have been just the thing for Jacinda Ardern’s, which is about this very subject.
Diane Abbott's masterful Assisted Dying speech will come back to haunt us

1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Melanie McDonagh

If yours is a sentimental bent, you’ll have been terrifically moved by the spectacle of Jess Phillips MP giving Kim Leadbeater a big hug after the Assisted Dying Bill was passed. Ms Leadbeater has a tendency to look agonised at the best of times. When MPs paid tribute to her in the course of the debate for her compassion, she looked as if she was on the verge of bursting into tears. Now, it’ll be tears of joy – at least for her.
Art of Friendship: Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone in Dublin

1 week ago | thecatholicherald.com | Melanie McDonagh

Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone, two artists celebrated in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin were Christian Modernists, and that wasn’t an oxymoron. If you include the pioneer Cubist Albert Gleizes, under whom they studied in Paris, that made three of them – Modernists imbued with a profound faith.
We all know why Britain's benefit numbers keep rising: too many mental health claims

1 week ago | standard.co.uk | Melanie McDonagh

CommentMelanie McDonagh2 minutes agoGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. There are some figures that are so strikingly off the scale – the cost of HS2, say, or levels of immigration – that you think there must be a nought too much or a decimal point missing.
British MPs open the door to infanticide

1 week ago | thespectator.com | Melanie McDonagh

Well, it’s hello to prenatal infanticide now that Tonia Antoniazzi’s amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill has passed the Commons after all of two hours’ debate with 379 MPs voting in favor. Can we get our heads round what that means? Nothing a woman does in relation to her own pregnancy can make her liable to prosecution.
MPs have opened the door to infanticide

1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Melanie McDonagh

Well, it’s hello to prenatal infanticide now that Tonia Antoniazzi’s amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill has passed the Commons after all of two hours’ debate with 379 MPs voting in favour. Can we get our heads round what that means? Nothing a woman does in relation to her own pregnancy can make her liable to prosecution.
MPs have opened the door to infanticide

1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Melanie McDonagh

Well, it’s hello to prenatal infanticide now that Tonia Antoniazzi’s amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill has passed the Commons after all of two hours’ debate with 379 MPs voting in favour. Can we get our heads round what that means? Nothing a woman does in relation to her own pregnancy can make her liable to prosecution.
Emily Maitlis, Jess Phillips, Lucy Powell and the rest of the liberal elite have been embarrassed over grooming gangs

1 week ago | standard.co.uk | Melanie McDonagh

CommentThe Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Melanie McDonagh2 minutes agoGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Well, it’s hats off to Elon Musk then, isn’t it?
OPINION - We need righteous fury in the new grooming gangs inquiry — and one big change

1 week ago | msn.com | Melanie McDonagh

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We need righteous fury in the new grooming gangs inquiry - and one big change

1 week ago | standard.co.uk | Melanie McDonagh

CommentThe Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Melanie McDonagh1 minute agoGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Well, it’s hats off to Elon Musk then, isn’t it?