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Podcast: The Julia Hartley-Brewer Show
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Description: Julia Hartley-Brewer is joined by Tom Slater, editor of spiked, for a fearless look at the stories Britain’s political class would rather avoid.They begin with the growing backlash against assisted dying, after Scotland votes down plans to legalise it. Julia and Tom ask whether so-called safeguards ever really hold, and whether Britain is being pushed towards a moral and medical disaster seen elsewhere in the West.Also in this episode: the Kent meningitis outbreak and the astonishingly slow response from public health officials, raising fresh questions about whether Britain’s bureaucracies have...