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Why did the assisted dying bill fail in the Commons? | Rowena Mason

MPs quietly withdrew support when it became clear it was not a priority of Andy Burnham’s government After two years of impassioned arguments, tearful personal testimonies, noisy protests and ethical dilemmas, the assisted dying bill for England and Wales failed on a knife edge. Campaigners on the pro side largely blame the House of Lords for making it seem an impossible struggle to get the bill through parliament, after blocking it the first time by putting through more than 1,000 amendments so that it ran out of time. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Rowena Mason Whitehall editor11 Sept

Why did the assisted dying bill fail in the Commons? | Rowena Mason

MPs quietly withdrew support when it became clear it was not a priority of Andy Burnham’s government After two years of impassioned arguments, tearful personal testimonies, noisy protests and ethical dilemmas, the assisted dying bill for England and Wales failed on a knife edge. Campaigners on the pro side largely blame the House of Lords for making it seem an impossible struggle to get the bill through parliament, after blocking it the first time by putting through more than 1,000 amendments so that it ran out of time. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Rowena Mason Whitehall editor11 Sept

Why did the assisted dying bill fail in the Commons? | Rowena Mason

MPs quietly withdrew support when it became clear it was not a priority of Andy Burnham’s government After two years of impassioned arguments, tearful personal testimonies, noisy protests and ethical dilemmas, the assisted dying bill for England and Wales failed on a knife edge. Campaigners on the pro side largely blame the House of Lords for making it seem an impossible struggle to get the bill through parliament, after blocking it the first time by putting through more than 1,000 amendments so that it ran out of time. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Rowena Mason Whitehall editor11 Sept

‘A tragic day’: campaigners react as MPs say no to legalising assisted dying

Opponents say proposed law change for England and Wales was ‘unsafe and unworkable’ after bill is narrowly defeated As it became clear that MPs had voted against the assisted dying bill , campaigners who had fought for a change in the law looked broken. Standing outside the Houses of Parliament, many wearing pink caps and T-shirts with slogans such as “Give me choice over my death”, they held on to each other for comfort. Some were in tears, others stood in shocked silence. MP Lauren Edwards, who sponsored the bill that would have allowed terminally ill adults in England and Wales with six months or less to live to seek medical assistance to end their lives, said its failure to pass was disappointing “for the many thousands of terminally ill people and their loved ones who were given hope when the Commons voted for this bill last year”. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Alexandra Topping Political correspondent11 Sept

‘A tragic day’: campaigners react after MPs vote against legalising assisted dying in England and Wales

But lawmakers who opposed bill counter it was ‘unsafe and unworkable’ amid concerns proposed law had many flaws As it became clear that MPs had voted against the assisted dying bill , campaigners who had fought for a change in the law looked broken. Standing outside the Houses of Parliament, many wearing pink caps and T-shirts with slogans such as “Give me choice over my death”, they held on to each other for comfort. Some were in tears, others stood in shocked silence. Lauren Edwards, who sponsored the bill that would have allowed terminally ill adults in England and Wales with six months or less to live to seek medical assistance to end their lives, said its failure to pass was disappointing “ for the many thousands of terminally ill people and their loved ones who were given hope when the Commons voted for this bill last year”. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Alexandra Topping, Political correspondent11 Sept

‘Absurd, hardline calls’: questions over Sweden’s post-Brexit migration policy

Sweden has ordered more Britons, including vulnerable people, to leave post-Brexit than any other EU country He arrived with nothing other than the clothes he wore that morning. Hours later he was banged up in a detention centre close to a Stockholm airport to await deportation. Charles, a former business director from Cambridge, who did not want his full name published, moved to Sweden in 2017 to be with his Swedish wife, Lily, and applied to remain after Brexit, before the deadline of December 2021. But the migration agency rejected his application, and he and his wife have been fighting with the Swedish authorities ever since. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Lisa O’Carroll in Stockholm11 Sept

Sabalenka and Rybakina resume epic rivalry at US Open after switch at No 1

Rybakina will top rankings after tournament as pair continue to meet one another in grand slam finals A typically understated Elena Rybakina stepped up to the microphone for her speech after her triumph at Indian Wells in 2023, her long-awaited first WTA 1000 title, and one of her first objectives was to recognise the efforts of her opponent. Rybakina congratulated Aryna Sabalenka on a strong fortnight and noted that it was the first time she had beaten the Belarusian. Sabalenka’s mouth instantly curled into a mischievous grin and, as ever, she could not halt her impulsive thoughts: “I will make sure it is the last time,” Sabalenka said, laughing. Rybakina, herself also smiling, responded instantly: “No. No, no, no. We’ll see next time.” There has since been a next time, another next time and several next times after that and as Sabalenka and Rybakina, the top two players in the world, face off at the US Open, this latest encounter proves beyond doubt they have established themselves as one of the best recent rivalries in women’s tennis. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Tumaini Carayol at Flushing Meadows11 Sept

Sabalenka and Rybakina resume epic rivalry at US Open after switch at No 1

Rybakina will top rankings after tournament as pair continue to meet one another in grand slam finals A typically understated Elena Rybakina stepped up to the microphone for her speech after her triumph at Indian Wells in 2023, her long-awaited first WTA 1000 title, and one of her first objectives was to recognise the efforts of her opponent. Rybakina congratulated Aryna Sabalenka on a strong fortnight and noted that it was the first time she had beaten the Belarusian. Sabalenka’s mouth instantly curled into a mischievous grin and, as ever, she could not halt her impulsive thoughts: “I will make sure it is the last time,” Sabalenka said, laughing. Rybakina, herself also smiling, responded instantly: “No. No, no, no. We’ll see next time.” There has since been a next time, another next time and several next times after that and as Sabalenka and Rybakina, the top two players in the world, face off at the US Open, this latest encounter proves beyond doubt they have established themselves as one of the best recent rivalries in women’s tennis. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Tumaini Carayol at Flushing Meadows11 Sept

Teen boy who clung to overturned boat for days rescued in Bering Sea

Teen and his brother and cousin, who both drowned, were fishing off Alaska’s St Lawrence Island when boat capsized A teen boy was rescued while clinging to a capsized fishing vessel in the Bering Sea for days after the boat overturned and his older brother and cousin drowned. The group had last been seen been leaving Alaska ’s St Lawrence Island in an 18ft fishing vessel on Friday, and were expected back early on Sunday but failed to return, the coast guard said in a statement. Authorities began their search on Sunday evening, and an aircrew found the sole survivor on top of the overturned vessel on Monday afternoon. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Dani Anguiano11 Sept

‘World’s most profitable football business’: Abramovich’s frozen Chelsea cash earns £175m

Proceeds are in a UK account amid a dispute about how the money should be used and a separate criminal investigation Funds from Roman Abramovich’s sale of Chelsea FC have earned at least £175m in interest while locked in a UK bank account, new accounts show, leading one analyst to describe the company housing the frozen cash as “the most profitable football business in the world”. Accounts for Fordstam, the company through which the billionaire Russian oligarch owned Chelsea , show that the proceeds of the sale have risen from £2.3bn to nearly £2.5bn. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Rob Davies11 Sept

‘World’s most profitable football business’: Abramovich’s frozen Chelsea cash earns £175m

Proceeds are in a UK account amid a dispute about how the money should be used and a separate criminal investigation Funds from Roman Abramovich’s sale of Chelsea FC have earned at least £175m in interest while locked in a UK bank account, new accounts show, leading one analyst to describe the company housing the frozen cash as “the most profitable football business in the world”. Accounts for Fordstam, the company through which the billionaire Russian oligarch owned Chelsea , show that the proceeds of the sale have risen from £2.3bn to nearly £2.5bn. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Rob Davies11 Sept

Trump and Hegseth use 9/11 memorial remarks at Pentagon to defend war on Iran

President and defense secretary try to link worst terrorist attack in US history to current unpopular war US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth used remarks at the memorial ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of 9/11 to defend the US-Israel war on Iran – and suggest the controversial conflict was part of the legacy of the worst terrorist attack in US history. While such ceremonies on September 11 typically focus on the victims of the 2001 attacks, the US president and his defense secretary each pointed to the war they launched on Iran more than six months ago, with no end in sight. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Shrai Popat and Joseph Gedeon in Washington11 Sept

‘They’re lifesavers’: the Birmingham clinic giving hope to traumatised asylum seekers

MSF-run centre offering intensive psychological has received more than 300 referrals since opening last year Azad*, an asylum seeker from Iran, recounts his story in a gentle and mild manner, seated in the stillness of a therapy room at a trauma clinic in Birmingham. The centre, which opened its doors in July last year to address the “unmet mental healthcare needs of those seeking sanctuary”, is run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders. It provides specialised trauma-focused psychological care for refugees and asylum seekers in the city and surrounding areas. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Neha Gohil Midlands correspondent11 Sept

UK lawmakers urge Burnham to block creation of artificial superintelligence after chilling warnings

Letter from 70 MPs and peers follows Anthropic employee’s claim new technology could wipe out humans AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts: but how seriously should we take them? More than 70 MPs and peers have urged Andy Burnham to back a ban on the creation of artificial superintelligence (ASI) and lead an international movement to stop the technology after a week of warnings from experts of a 10% chance it could kill all humans. Fifteen former government ministers, along with the former head of the civil service Robin Butler, senior Labour MPs including John McDonnell and leading Conservatives, Liberal Democrat and SNP MPs have written to the prime minister. They urged him to throw the government’s weight behind a bill, tabled in the Commons on Tuesday that would prohibit ASI – an as-yet-nonexistent AI that outcompetes human capabilities in most domains. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Robert Booth UK technology editor11 Sept

The Guardian view on controlling AI: humanity cannot outsource its survival | Editorial

Keeping people in charge means little if supercomputers determine the evidence, choices and time on which their decisions depend If there were a 10% chance that AI could wipe out humanity, no responsible government would leave its development to companies racing to build it. Yet until recently, that seemed to be the case. The warning was all the more ominous because it was made by a researcher at Anthropic , the trillion-dollar AI company behind the Claude chatbot. The dangers of AI-enabled pandemics or attacks on nuclear systems are real. Countries need not agree on democracy or trade policy to accept this. The US and China will hold, reportedly , their first bilateral AI-safety talks before a planned White House summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. Despite their tech rivalry, neither Washington nor Beijing can make the most advanced AI safe on their own. A US-China settlement won’t be able to say how AI works everywhere. Countries deploying AI must help write the global rulebook. The odds on an extinction event are shortening. This week Anthropic said that it identified five cases in which attempts were made using its models to support biological weapons development. It banned the accounts. In one case, a platform sent requests rejected by Claude to a rival with weaker safeguards . AI safety, clearly, cannot be that of the least responsible model. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here . Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Editorial11 Sept

Self-driving cars should be taxed to offset job losses, thinktank urges

Report says widespread autonomous vehicle adoption would put hundreds of thousands of private hire jobs at risk Taxes on self-driving cars should be introduced now in the UK to offset the rise in congestion and threats to jobs they pose, a thinktank has urged. The first robotaxis on London’s streets only started this month , but government projections are that up to 40% of cars sold could have self-driving capability by the middle of the next decade. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent11 Sept

Self-driving cars should be taxed to offset job losses, thinktank urges

Report says widespread autonomous vehicle adoption would put hundreds of thousands of private hire jobs at risk Taxes on self-driving cars should be introduced now in the UK to offset the rise in congestion and threats to jobs they pose, a thinktank has urged. The first robotaxis on London’s streets only started this month , but government projections are that up to 40% of cars sold could have self-driving capability by the middle of the next decade. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent11 Sept

Self-driving cars should be taxed to offset job losses, thinktank urges

Report warns widespread autonomous vehicle adoption would put hundreds of thousands of private hire jobs at risk Taxes on self-driving cars should be introduced now in the UK to offset the rise in congestion and threats to jobs they pose, a thinktank has urged. The first robotaxis on London’s streets only started this month , but government projections are that up to 40% of cars sold could be capable of self-driving capability by the middle of the next decade. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent11 Sept

Mail on Sunday ends up funding state school scholarship via payout to MP

Labour’s Catherine Atkinson says she will give students £5,000 paid to her by paper that falsely accused her of concealing private school education A new scholarship supporting state-educated students will be inadvertently funded by the Mail on Sunday, using a payout it made after being threatened with legal action by the Labour MP Catherine Atkinson. The Derby North MP says she will use the proceeds of around £5,000 from the Mail on Sunday (MoS) to fund scholarships for local law students at the University of Derby who – like her – attended state schools. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Richard Adams Education editor11 Sept