Chris Creegan

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A letter to my sister, Rachael, at 60

27/10/2024

On human forms, your presence, first and always open smile; I cannot reach the memory or ease the space, of in between the cliffs and sky: the silence. From Untitled by David Annwn* It has taken me 16 years to write this letter. But you would have been 60 today and I could not let the moment […]
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How I became an assisted dying advocate — and why Westminster Parliamentarians must stand up for choice at the end of life

29/11/2024

On balance the choice of an assisted death is probably not one I would make for myself. That may sound like a curious way for an advocate of assisted dying to start an article at such a moment. Contradictory even. But at its heart this is a debate about choice. And whatever choice I might […]
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Ending new HIV transmission in the UK by 2030 is within our grasp — we must not fail

01/12/2024

It’s World AIDS Day again. For those of us who lived, loved and lost through the 1980s and 1990s, it is an opportunity to recall the lives of those who didn’t make it through that hell. It matters that we remember the dead. The past is not a foreign country. It is a place we inhabit still. […]
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