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If you usually find audiobooks a struggle, I couldn’t recommend this more👇 The accents (oh the accents!) - I could never have brought this to life so vividly in my own head. Loved it 💙📚

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After a lovely half-term, I’m catching up on this little (pleasurable) job I have set myself, of documenting everything I read this year A small flurry is incoming This inserted itself at the top of my list due to glowing reviews - I enjoyed it👇

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👩‍⚖️No other country with assisted dying requires judicial review. While several questions remain on the assisted dying bill, the coming amendment improves safety standards, having judges in a more suitable position, @gideonsalutin.bsky.social explains👇 www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

It's only right that @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social responds to the evidence heard in Committee and works to improve the Bill. This proposed change strikes a balance between choice for dying people and building in safety measures.

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My favourite book this year - highly recommended👇

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I posted my list out of order and it’s really annoying but the main thing is that you should read this - immediately - if you haven’t already. So good

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Set across one soaked day in a suffocating neighbourhood, I’m not sure Arlington Park could have felt more apt. I hadn’t read Rachel Cusk before. I was left both impressed and wincing by how precisely and mercilessly she skewers middle class suburbia and its unhappy mothers. Brutal #BookSky

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

It’s been a while since I read something that made me laugh out loud Ideally it wouldn’t have been a noisy snort in a busy restaurant but these things happen I guess

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The sky and the rain and the sea have blurred into one another like a watercolour today

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

"It is extremely important to get the details of the legislation right, and enhance it where necessary...but we must also not lose sight of the fact that the current legal situation is unacceptable and deeply problematic" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Rolling news: Kim Leadbeater tables 56 amendments to assisted dying bill • strengthening training requirements, inc on capacity • requiring doctors to draft a detailed report assessing a patient • leaving forms to regulations Summary below ⬇️ www.hansardsociety.org.uk/publications...

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Tessa Hadley is both insightful and brutal - this novella is *wonderful* I turned the final page and wanted to go back to the beginning again Highly recommended👇👏

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Great to see prisons charities still joining Bluesky! Welcome to @prisonadvice.bsky.social 👋 You can find lots more in this #CriminalJustice starter pack, inc: @thehowardleague.bsky.social @prisonersadvice.bsky.social @prisonersed.bsky.social But lmk if I’ve missed anyone! go.bsky.app/2sQ9xmz

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

📢 LAWYERS!📢 Since 2 high-profile baby deaths in women’s prisons, there’s been a sea change in the sentencing of pregnant women. But there’s much more to be done - and we need criminal & public lawyers to do it! Come & find out how you can help on 5 March 🌟✨ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/human-righ...

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Great to see prisons charities still joining Bluesky! Welcome to @prisonadvice.bsky.social 👋 You can find lots more in this #CriminalJustice starter pack, inc: @thehowardleague.bsky.social @prisonersadvice.bsky.social @prisonersed.bsky.social But lmk if I’ve missed anyone! go.bsky.app/2sQ9xmz

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment