Commentary magazine: Pulling Britain Back from the Abyss. An excerpt:
During the 2025 debate, Sacks’s final sentences were cited in the House of Lords by a peer who knew him well: Stuart Polak, a member of Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community and one of Israel’s most prominent defenders in the Lords. “My Lords,” Polak reflected, “the words of Lord Sacks should once again ring loudly and clearly today as they did in 2006.” But the most devastating and affecting words were Polak’s own. “I speak,” he said, “out of a deep and abiding concern for the society we are shaping, for the values we hold, and for the vulnerable whom we are duty bound to protect; and, my Lords, I speak as someone who was given six months to live 37 years ago.” In a single phrase, Polak captured all that is wrong about the bill—both the way in which it will make the vulnerable feel like burdens, and the seeming infallibility it grants the predictions of doctors.
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