Julian Hughes

Professor Julian C. Hughes is a retired consultant in old age psychiatry and former deputy chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. He is an honorary professor at the University of Bristol and co-wrote ‘The Reality of Assisted Dying: Understanding the Issues’ with Baroness Ilora Finlay.

What would George Orwell make of the assisted dying debate?

George Orwell would have plenty to say about the language used in the assisted dying debate. As Orwell wrote in his essay ‘Politics and the English Language’: ‘When you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself’. He continued, ‘political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,