Bruno Waterfield

Dutch rethink euthanasia law after 60% rise in mental health cases The number of young people in psychological distress being offered lethal injections has caused growing controversy in the Netherlands

Dutch rethink euthanasia law after 60% rise in mental health cases
Pays-Bas repensent la loi sur l'euthanasie après une augmentation de 60 % des cas de santé mentale
@brunowaterfield.bsky.social
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Horizon #Canada 2027 AMM trouble mental doit être revu #elections2025

Instead, decisions on wolves have clearly been driven by political expediency and succeed only in appeasing vocal interest groups, such as hunters, who prefer to take recourse to rifles, rather than seeking coexistence with large carnivores.”

My favourite
Dr Joanna Swabe, Senior Director of Public Affairs at Humane Society International/Europe (HSI): “All decision-making relating to the protected status of wildlife species must be based on robust scientific evidence...

Marta Klimkiewicz, ClientEarth: “This decision is a green light to shoot wolves, given by the international community in white gloves.”
"This decision disregards science and opens the door to political interference in conservation efforts," said Ilaria Di Silvestre, IFAW's Director of Policy

Environmentalists are horrified, of course. Especially that vocal protests and, dread word, politics has triumphed over the green machine of scientific worthies

EU accused of ‘painting wolves as villains’ in push to allow culls Conservationists say proposal to remove protected status has ‘purely political motivations’ as farmers demand right to kill problem predators

Wolves lose their privileged status - putting them above livestock, ponies (think Dolly), dogs (one saved pooch was called Bruno) and (also thinking of the Netherlands) children too. Decision now taken
Britain, I hear, was opposed to the EU plan
www.thetimes.com/article/db4a...

It's very kind of you to share my write-up of the Leadbeater bill debate. www.spectator.co.uk/article/hist...

My mother’s MS has shaped my view on assisted dying From a position of health it’s easy to say we’d take the quick route. But real life isn’t like that

'And you will never again live a single day — and nor will they — when this is not the case'. Heart rending and on point by @hugorifkind.bsky.social Expresses precisely the reservations I have having watched my mum die www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Hommage à Saint V
My daughter is at l'université des enfants this morning
A special day as they are marking the founding of @ulbruxelles.bsky.social with Saint Verhaegen day
This is not a fete approved by the Roman Catholic church, far from it, a greater humanist tradition

Part of me wants the CDU to have to own the economic freak show that is Germany’s #debt brake in the next four years.

But reform is now too urgent.
www.economist.com/leaders/2024...

Telling or ironic that Bulgaria and Romania are finally about to fully join Schengen while it is being dismantled more and more in the inside...

The populist revolt is not a ‘whitelash’ European voters are demanding a shared, civic future.

Europe's populist revolt is not a march to achieve white supremacy. It is actually a civic backlash against elitist notions of superiority and inferiority.
www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/20/t...