Sonia Sodha

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Sonia Sodha

Last month, ITV News reported on the case of 51-year-old Anne, who travelled to a Swiss assisted suicide clinic to end her own life after her only son died. The first her family knew of it was when they received the goodbye letters Anne had posted them from Switzerland. It follows another case from 2023, when 47-year-old Alastair Hamilton went to the same Swiss clinic after telling his mother he was going on holiday. He had been suffering from stomach problems but had no diagnosed illness.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Sonia Sodha

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2 weeks ago | msn.com | Sonia Sodha

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2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Sonia Sodha

Unions exist first and foremost to protect employee rights, and there are many examples of where they’ve done that well. But it turns out unions don’t always make for the best, or even adequate, employers themselves. In last week’s parliamentary debate on the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) by employers to cover up abuse and discrimination in the workplace, Labour MP Louise Haigh recounted noted unions’ use of NDAs confidentiality to hush up appalling behaviour.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Sonia Sodha

Ask me what a Labour prime minister should feel a moral obligation to deliver and I’d put reducing child poverty at the top of the list. Sorting out our broken social care system would be up there too. One thing that wouldn’t feature: cutting disability benefits. Yet last week Keir Starmer attempted to frame cutting the disability benefits bill as a moral, not just economic, imperative – that Labour is “the party of work” and has a duty to reduce welfare costs.