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The striking parallels between the assisted dying and trans rights movements

2 days ago | reaction.life | Adam Boulton

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill returns to the Commons for further consideration on Friday. MPs voted it through in principle by 330 to 375 late last November and must now decide whether to approve it conclusively. Similar legislation is also making its way through the Scottish parliament. Assisted Dying seems so obviously to be a good cause. What could be wrong with helping to end the pain and indignity of people who are “going to die soon anyway”?
Unconvincing Trump presents China trade talks as a victory

3 days ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

Stock markets in the US soared today after the world’s two largest economies majorly de-escalated their trade war. Predictably, Donald Trump has presented the outcome of talks between US and Chinese officials in Switzerland over the weekend as a victory, claiming this afternoon: “They’ve agreed to fully open China”. We’re still waiting on the evidence that Beijing has in any way been trumped.
Is the US-UK trade deal a win for Britain? Yes and no

6 days ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

As economists and politicians alike examine the finer details of Thursday’s much-touted US-UK trade deal, a mixed picture is emerging to that central question: is this really a win for Britain? Certainly, news that Trump has sealed his first post-“liberation day” bilateral deal has offered a boost to global markets, fueling optimistic that this is the first of many to come. Hence why Germany’s stock market rose to a record high today.
Labour must do more to champion the arts

6 days ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

Jennie Lee at the Labour party conference in Brighton, 1962 ( via Alamy/ 2Y6ER5K)Labour’s mission to “turbocharge” the arts is yet to take off and hopes that the new government would reverse the cultural decline under years of Tory rule appear to have been over-optimistic.
Can India and Pakistan step back from the brink?

1 week ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

“This heinous act of aggression will not go unpunished,” Pakistani leader Shehbaz Sharif warned India today, as the nuclear-armed rivals inch closer to all-out war following a spate of deadly Indian airstrikes on Pakistan this morning. India’s foreign ministry, meanwhile, insists: “The whole country is happy we took revenge”.
India-UK trade deal: a silver lining of Trump's tariffs

1 week ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

After three long years of negotiations, Britain and India finally struck a free trade deal today, which UK ministers are labelling "the biggest and most economically significant" bilateral trade agreement to be signed since Brexit. Keir Starmer, who is expected to travel to India soon to meet his counterpart Narendra Modi, insists this “landmark deal” will add £4.8bn a year to the economy by 2040.
Will Labour learn the right lessons from Reform's sweeping election gains?

1 week ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

Nigel Farage’s insistence that he heads Britain’s “main opposition party” is that bit more grounded in reality this evening, after Reform UK gave both Labour and the Tories a drubbing in local elections, and swept to victory in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election. Reform UK gained a new MP in Cheshire by the thinnest of margins: Sarah Pochin beat Labour’s Karen Shore by six votes, making it the closest by-election result since 1892.
On Greenery, Blair gets it right again

1 week ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

Tony Blair’s intervention in the net zero debate this week took the political establishment by surprise, but not because he wasn’t talking sense – even Labour-supporting unions agreed with him. Yet, just ahead of a by-election - which Labour went on to narrowly lose to Reform - and local council elections, the timing of his attack on his party’s "doomed to fail" energy policy was considered odd.
The last Waltz

2 weeks ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

The first high-profile casualty of Team Trump 2.0 emerged today, after the US President fired his scandal-ridden National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz. Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, are expected to leave their posts by the end of the day. Trump has nominated Waltz for UN ambassador.
Trump liberates America from growth on 100th day in office

2 weeks ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

"It’s official: Donald Trump has finally liberated the American economy - from growth”, jibed New York congressman Ritchie Torres, as Donald Trump’s 100th day in office coincides with news that the US economy has shrunk for the first time in three years.