Is a “mercy killing” murder?

Posted by on Nov 12, 2010 in Blog, News | 10 comments We need an urgent political debate in this country about “mercy killings” following a decision by the Court of Appeal today rejecting a mother’s conviction of murder after she fatally injected her brain-inured son with a heroin injection to end his “living hell”. Why wasn’t it reduced to manslaughter? Frances Inglis, 58, of Dagenham, was jailed for life at the...
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Will Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi be freed today?

Posted by on Nov 12, 2010 in Blog, Politics | 2 comments This is terrific news. There are reports that military authorities have signed an order authorising the release of Burma’s jailed democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a woman whose dignity in adversity and oppression has won her worldwide admiration. The Nobel Peace Prize winner has spent more than 15 years in detention, most of it under house arrest at her home, for her political beliefs and...
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Cambridge student protests from the 60s and 70s

Posted by on Nov 12, 2010 in Blog, updates | 0 comments With student protests in the headlines over rising tuition fees, I thought I would delve back and see which issues fired up Cambridge students in the past, particularly the 1960s and 70s. Since then, student life in Cambridge seems to have been much quieter, barring the incident when a student threw a shoe at the Chinese prime minister last year. Ian Kitching has recorded past student actions on...
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