Sonia Sodha

An over-simple bill on a complex matter like assisted dying will fail to protect those who are most at risk

Growing up poor blights children’s lives, and results in lower work and health outcomes that cost the exchequer long term

The favourite to win the leadership contest should give the left pause for thought on diversity

George Carey is wrong to reduce the bill to a simple question of right or wrong

Instead of receiving early help, pupils and parents face a vicious cycle of trying to get treatment

Canny PR suggests critics are against aspiration but who is policing the spread of poor-quality degrees?

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are introduced to is Isaiah Berlin's famous distinction between “freedom to” and “freedom from”: an illustration of the fact that giving more rights to one individual can result in taking away another person's freedoms, thereby detracting from the sum total of liberty in the world. Looking at just one side of the “liberty ledger” risks a very misleading picture, particularly when the arguments in favour of a new “right” are very powerful, as they are in the case of legalising medically-assisted suicide, often referred to as assisted dying.

Charles Falconer: The current law has been abandoned. The director of public prosecutions (DPP) will not prosecute those motivated by compassion as

Last week’s launch of a historic private member’s bill set off an impassioned nationwide discourse in the UK. Here, the Observer’s chief leader writer discusses the big talking points with the former lord chancellor

Labour has got off to a shaky start in government. It’s time it told the truth about the state we’re in