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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (22nd December, 2023) Calls for a change in the law relating to assisted dying rose to a crescendo this week. Yesterday Labour leader [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (17th April, 2023) There are few more sensitive political issues than legalisation of euthanasia. On one hand we hear emotive pleas from patients [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (28th September, 2020) Yew Trees was called a hospital but sounds more like hell. It was supposed to be a sanctuary for women [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (10th August, 2020) I have resumed my job as a foreign reporter following a four-month break. It was a strange experience as I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (2nd December, 2019) In 1773, a wealthy businessman named John Howard, appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire, was distressed to discover the barbaric treatment of inmates [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Sun (12th February, 2019) THE Tories are in a pickle – and not just on Brexit. They tried to cloak themselves in compassion by chucking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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