Polly Toynbee
  • People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

  • But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

  • But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

  • But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

  • Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.