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Assisted suicide: I claim the right to live as I am - imperfect

Guillain-Barre syndrome and anti-assisted suicide campaigner Nikki Kenward shares her views with The Journal

• Dignity is not the same as choice
• Suicide Act to be modified
• Euthanasia debate reignited by "right to die" girl

Interview: Norman Finkelstein »

Sitting in a Middle Eastern restaurant minutes before he is due to speak to a booked-out lecture theatre, Norman Finkelstein tells me mid-meal, "wherever I travel, as is the case in Edinburgh, there is a large community of people who share my point of ...

Wed 15 Feb 2012 by Dominic Sowa | Read more »

Dead Politicians' Society »

For those outside the School of Social and Political Science at Edinburgh University, Elizabeth Bomberg is a largely unfamiliar figure. However, as an out-of-the-ordinary teacher, she represents something that all students hope for and all teachers as...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by John Foley | Read more »

"We're very lucky, and I couldn't face the idea of that changing" »

"This is not the end – it’s just the end of the beginning," insists 23-year-old Bean Reoch who stands smiling, her back turned to the building that has become a second home in the last seven months. Chants still echo along University Avenue...

Tue 13 Sep 2011 by Alan Robertson | Read more »

A Liberal Vision for Scotland »

Meeting with Tavish Scott, he comes across as less polished than other politicians I have interviewed, but like other party leaders, appears quietly confident. Conducting our interview over a ‘jammy scone’ in a quiet café, he display...

Wed 04 May 2011 by Robbie Marwick | Read more »

Salmond: Labour in Scotland have had a generation of believing in nothing »

At a circular table in a glass-walled kitchenette inside the Scottish National Party’s Edinburgh headquarters, First Minister Alex Salmond is bullish about his party’s prospects at the impending general election. We find the formidable part...

Wed 20 Apr 2011 by Marcus Kernohan | Read more »

Gray: Clegg broke a promise worth £800m - the SNP broke one worth £2 billion »

There are over 80,000 students living and studying in Edinburgh, and over 250,000 in the whole of Scotland. Theirs is a demographic likely to prove crucial in deciding the outcome of 5 May's general election - that much is, by now, received wisdom, but...

Sat 16 Apr 2011 by Jonathan Baldie | Read more »

Jon Snow: The hack who came in from the cold »

Sitting opposite Jon Snow, his charisma is immediately obvious. The ITN journalist's laidback attitude is infectious, and as he slyly smiles we ease into comfortable conversation. The man's definitely a pro. Like his interrogator, he studied law, but ...

Wed 24 Nov 2010 by Robbie Marwick | Read more »

Scottish Government v. Human Rights »

Last Tuesday, the UK Supreme Court ruled in Cadder v HMA that the Scottish system of using evidence gathered during the initial police questioning of criminal suspects held in detention without access to a lawyer was in contravention of Article 6 of th...

Wed 10 Nov 2010 by Robbie Marwick | Read more »

Interview: Jim Murphy »

Reality television, as George Galloway will tell you, is a fabulous way for a politician to raise his public profile. Still, one imagines Jim Murphy could have thought of better ways to make his mark on the national consciousness than being outed as a...

Sun 22 Mar 2009 by Simon Mundy | Read more »

Interview: John Kay »

There are some bruised egos among the ranks of Britain's economic commentators, as the global financial crisis lurches from one tumultuous stage to the next. “What I think is of little importance,” groaned Anatole Kaletsky in The Times a fe...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by Simon Mundy | Read more »

Interview: Alastair Campbell »

“I hear that’s a good read.” Leafing through Alastair Campbell’s debut novel in a Glasgow cafe, it’s only when he taps me on the shoulder that I realise the man at the adjacent table is the author himself. But then, Tony ...

Sat 06 Dec 2008 by Simon Mundy | Read more »