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Sonia Sodha

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Burnout, shame, heartbreak: nurses are being crushed by our broken NHS

Burnout, shame, heartbreak: nurses are being crushed by our broken NHS
19.01.2025 30

The Guardian

Sonia Sodha

How assisted dying changed my mind on religion

How assisted dying changed my mind on religion
19.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Sonia Sodha

I am a rational liberal, yet a question about the sanctity of life floored me

I am a rational liberal, yet a question about the sanctity of life floored me
12.01.2025 10

The Guardian

Sonia Sodha

Labour had plenty of time to ponder social care. Now it has a chance to deliver

Politicians from different parties offer up their ideas at election time, citizens vote for their preferred option, and a government is formed....

05.01.2025 5

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Voters must learn to accept that Britain’s challenges are too big to solve straight away

It’s a running joke in Westminster that some on the British centre-left are fascinated by American politics to the point of obsession. So much so...

24.11.2024 100

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England’s universities flex their muscles to hike fees, while students get a bum deal

Sometimes you just need to call something out for what it is. English undergraduate education is a hot mess that works in the institutional...

10.11.2024 10

The Guardian

Sonia Sodha

What sort of society rations support for children with special learning needs?

There’s a proliferation of acronyms assigned to children whose needs the state is struggling to meet. SEN (children with special educational...

27.10.2024 7

The Guardian

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The assisted dying debate is about so much more than kindness v conservatism

There is perhaps nothing more 2020s than taking a sensitive, morally fraught issue loaded with complexity and nuance, and casting it as progress...

20.10.2024 5

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Kemi Badenoch is no cartoon villain. Labour underestimates her at its peril

The beauty parade of Conservative leadership hopefuls is finally approaching its end stages. Tory MPs have spent six weeks whittling down six...

13.10.2024 10

The Guardian

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Bringing an end to child poverty really ought to be an economic no-brainer

What’s Labour’s governing philosophy? That was the question posed at a dinner I went to with some MPs and former staffers during the party’s annual...

29.09.2024 20

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A rushed UK law is no way to make such a vital, painful decision as how to die

Labour goes into its conference this weekend with a friendly warning it would do well to heed. The Starmerite thinktank Labour Together has just...

22.09.2024 10

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Academic free speech is too crucial to be used as a political football by left or right

Michelle Shipworth, an associate professor at University College London (UCL), has for several years taught a “data detectives” masters module on...

01.09.2024 10

The Guardian

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Punish the men who pay for sex, rather than the women lured into that life

Labour’s most ambitious pledge isn’t to reach the highest sustained growth in the G7, or to transition Britain to zero-carbon electricity by 2030....

25.08.2024 20

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Sonia Sodha

The BMA’s stance on puberty blockers defies the key principle of medicine: first, do no harm

We entrust doctors with our health. Patients have the right to expect that those doctors will make decisions based on evidence-based clinical...

04.08.2024 50

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The perfect feelgood TV, did Strictly’s sparkle blind it to flaws in its format?

S trictly Come Dancing always seemed to me like the no-brainer reality TV show from a contestant perspective. At best, it’s seriously...

28.07.2024 2

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Yes, five years in jail is too harsh, but the Just Stop Oil Five shouldn’t have done it

It was “a dark day”, according to a UN special rapporteur. Others lamented “a gross miscarriage of justice” and “a farce” marking “a low point in...

21.07.2024 20

The Guardian

Sonia Sodha