The former president of the supreme court who ruled on the most high-profile assisted dying cases has declared his support for the law change, as MPs backing the bill say they believe they have the numbers for Friday’s historic vote to pass. David Neuberger, who ruled against high-profile assisted dying cases including Debbie Purdy in 2009 and Tony Nicklinson in 2015, told the Guardian he believed the status quo was failing “the fundamental aims of the law – to respect people’s right of personal autonomy, and to protect the vulnerable”. Neuberger said his experience sitting on cases involving assisted dying meant he was confident the tight terms of Kim Leadbeater’s bill – that it would apply to only those who are terminally ill – could not be expanded by judicial challenge. Both sides in the debate have been making their final calls to MPs in the last days before the vote, with dozens still telling colleagues they are undecided. The Guardian can reveal MPs are also preparing to announce a new independent commission on palliative care – spearheaded by the Labour MP Rachael Maskell – which they are hopeful will get backing from the health secretary, Wes Streeting, when it launches in December. High-profile charities backing the new commission include the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland, Hospice UK, Marie Curie and Sue Ryder, though all say it must take hearings from all sides of the debate. The focus would be on improving end-of-life care and a favoured chair is the palliative care doctor llora Finlay, though she has been explicitly anti-assisted dying. MPs this week have also heard impassioned plea from disability activists against assisted dying. Pam Duncan-Glancy, the Scottish Labour MSP who uses a wheelchair, said she felt disabled people’s voices were being forgotten and wrote a letter to Labour MPs saying the state would be at risk of making it easier for disabled people to die than to access the right help to live comfortably. The MPs backing Leadbeater’s private member’s bill are understood to believe they have solidified support in recent days and now have enough to get the bill past its first parliamentary hurdle, though some support is conditional on changes at the next stage. In the first Westminster vote on the issue in nearly 10 years, MPs at Westminster have been given a free vote, meaning they can vote according to conscience. Esther Rantzen, the TV presenter who has been one of the most high-profile advocates for change, also wrote to MPs on Friday saying “my time is running out” but the issue was one “the public care desperately about” and said it might not be debated by MPs “for another decade” if the legislation did not pass. But a slew of new Labour MPs – who could be the decisive votes on Friday – came out against the bill on Wednesday evening, having not made their views public previously. Those include Imogen Walker, the PPS to Rachel Reeves, Zubir Ahmed, PPS to Wes Streeting, and Blair McDougall, a former aide to David Miliband. Lord Neuberger said that those concerned about a slippery slope after the bill passed should be confident that could not occur through the courts, saying it could only occur if MPs in parliament decided to change the law again to expand its definition beyond terminally ill adults. “The European court of human rights has repeatedly ruled that legislation on assisted dying is a matter for individual states,” he said. “As for domestic courts, seven of the nine judges including me in the Nicklinson case held that assisted dying was a matter for parliament not the courts,” he said. “The present law ... prevents those who genuinely and understandably wish to end their lives and who need help to do so, from getting such help. It also fails to protect the vulnerable, because the blanket ban can drive terminally ill people to end their lives in secret.” Another former supreme court president, Brenda Hale, and former supreme court judge Jonathan Sumption have also backed the law change. But a number of other senior members of the judiciary have voiced concern about the bill, including Sir James Munby, the former president of the high court’s family division; and the former lord chief justice Lord Thomas, who has warned “ no one has grappled with the detail ” of the impact of the legislation on family courts. About 130 MPs are already down to speak in the five-hour debate on Friday and at least four amendments have been submitted, sparking fears speeches will be severely limited. Duncan-Glancy, who has been meeting MPs in parliament, wrote an emotional letter to her Labour colleagues asking them to reconsider supporting the bill. “My opposition to the bill is based on one simple point; that it should not be easier to get assistance to die, than to live,” she wrote. “If this bill was to pass, the former could become the case. I know some MPs support the principle of assisted dying but that you have some doubts about what is in – and not in – this bill. You are right to have doubts and you are not voting on a principle. You are voting on a piece of legislation that I believe could put disabled people at risk if passed. “During Covid-19, my husband and I wrote letters to say: ‘Please do not put a DNR notice on us’ because such was the opinion and low value that we felt that was placed on disabled people’s lives, that we, even as supported as we are, were scared. No one should feel their existence is a burden on others.” In her letter to all 650 MPs, Rantzen urges them to listen to Friday’s debate and to vote, whatever their view. “This is such a vital life-and-death issue, one that we the public care desperately about, so it is only right that as many MPs as possible listen to the arguments.” Rantzen will not attend Friday’s debate in person but her daughter Rebecca Wilcox will be in the public gallery on her behalf. Wilcox told the Guardian Rantzen had been in contact with “so many brilliant families and relatives of people that have experienced trauma”, Wilcox said. “They are looking down the barrel of a terrible diagnosis and are just hoping for the vote to go their way so that there’s more compassion and more empathy in the law.”
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When the page turns on 2024, it will be time to say goodbye, once and for all, to the amateur athlete in college sports. In theory, the concept held on stubbornly via the quaint and now all-but-dead notion that student-athletes played only for pride, a scholarship and some meal money. In practice, the amateurs have been disappearing for years, washed away by the steady millions, now billions, that have flowed into college athletics, mostly through football and basketball both through legitimate and illicit means. In the coming year, the last vestiges of amateur college sports are expected to officially sputter out — the final step of a journey that has felt inevitable since 2021. That’s when the Supreme Court laid the foundation for paying college players in exchange for promotions — on social media, TV, video games, you name it — featuring their name, image or likeness (NIL). The changes have come in spasms so far, not always well thought out, not always fair and not regulated by any single entity like the NCAA or federal government, but rather by a collection of state laws, along with rules at individual schools and the leagues in which they play. But on April 7, the day final approval is expected for the landmark, $2.8 billion lawsuit settlement that lays the foundation for players to receive money directly from their schools, what was once considered anathema to the entire concept of college sports will become the norm. David Schnase, the NCAA’s vice president for academic and membership affairs, acknowledges that maintaining the unique essence of college sports is a challenge in the shifting landscape. “You can use the word ‘pro,’ you can use the word ‘amateur,’ you can attach whatever moniker you want to it, but those are just labels,” Schnase said. “It’s much less about labels and more about experiences and circumstances. Circumstances are different today than they were last year and they are likely going to be different in the foreseeable future.” Few would argue that college athletes shouldn’t get something back for the billions they help produce in TV and ticket revenue, merchandise sales and the like. But is everyone going to cash in? Are college players really getting rich? Recent headlines suggest top quarterback recruit Bryce Underwood was lured to Michigan thanks to funding from billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellison, and that a top basketball recruit, A.J. Dybantsa, is heading to BYU — not a hoops powerhouse — for the reported price of $7 million. For every Underwood or Dybantsa, though, there are even more Matthew Slukas and Beau Pribulas. Sluka’s agent says his son agreed to play quarterback at UNLV after a promise of receiving $100,000 and quit three games into the season after the checks never came. Pribula was the backup quarterback at Penn State who abruptly entered the transfer portal earlier this month, choosing the college version of free agency over a chance to play with the Nittany Lions in the College Football Playoff. He’s not the only one hitting the portal in hopes of getting rich before new regulations related to the NCAA settlement take effect. “We’ve got problems in college football,” Penn State coach James Franklin said. The settlement will overhaul the current system. Currently, players receive money via third-party collectives that are booster-funded groups affiliated with individual schools. Coming up fast: the schools paying the athletes directly — the term often used here is “revenue sharing” — with collectives still an option, but not the only one. “It’s going to be more transparent,” said Jeff Kessler, the plaintiffs’ attorney and antitrust veteran who helped shape the settlement. “If anything, having the schools handling all the payments is only going to improve the system.” The NCAA has started collecting data about NIL payments, which date to July 2021. Its first set of numbers, which includes data from more than 140 schools across more than 40 sports in 2024, show a bracing disconnect between have and have-nots. For instance, average earnings for football and men’s and women’s basketball players is nearly $38,000. But the median earning — the middle number among all the data points on the list — is only $1,328, a sign of how much the biggest contracts skew the average. The statistics also show a vast difference in earnings between men and women, an issue that could impact schools’ ability to comply with Title IX. That 1972 law requires schools to provide equal athletic scholarships and financial aid but not necessarily that they spend the same dollar amount on men and women. Heading into 2025, there is no clarity on how this issue will play out. Regardless, the numbers are jarring. The NCAA data set shows the average earnings for women in 16 sports was $8,624, compared with $33,321 for men in 11 sports. Men,’s basketball players averaged $56,000 compared with $11,500 for women. The biggest losers from this move toward a professional model could be all the swimmers and wrestlers and field hockey players — the athletes in the so-called non-revenue sports whose programs also happen to serve as the backbone of the U.S. Olympic team. Only a tiny percentage of those athletes are getting rich, and now that universities have to use revenue to pay the most sought-after players in their athletic programs, there could be cuts to the smaller sports. Also, someone’s going to have backfill the revenue that will now go to the players. Well-heeled donors like Ellison are not around for every school, nor have private equity firms started sending money. The average fan will have to pony up, and the last six months have seen dozens — if not hundreds — of athletic directors begging alumni for money and warning them of changes ahead. Already there are schools placing surcharges on tickets or concessions. How will fans respond to a more transactional model of college sports? “I don’t know that fans have this really great love for the idea of 100% pure amateurism,” said Nels Popp, a University of North Carolina sports business professor. “I think what they care about is the colors and the logos and the brand. I don’t know that it matters to them if the players are making a little bit of money or a lot of money. They’ve been making money for the last couple years, and I don’t know that that’s making fans really back off.” The last time amateurism came under such assault was in the 1980s, when the Olympics unwound the final remnants of pretending the vast majority of their athletes were anything other than full-time professionals. The transformation was tinged with a note of honesty: The people putting on the show should reap some benefits from it. Even 40 years later, there’s an good argument they remain underpaid. The contours of the same debate are shaping up in college sports. Athletes are pushing for a players’ association that would add more transparency to a business that, even with the changes coming, is still largely dictated by the schools. The NCAA, while acceding to the need to pay the players, wants nothing to do with turning them into actual employees of the schools they play for. It’s an expensive prospect that is winding its way through the legal system via lawsuits and labor hearings that many in college sports are desperate to avoid for fear it will push the entire industry off the financial cliff. Among the few things everyone agrees on is that things aren’t going back to a time when athletes pretended to play for pride while the money moved under tables and through shadows. And that this, in fact, could only be the start, not the end, of the transformation of college sports. “At some point, I think people might have to understand that maybe college athletes don’t go to college anymore,” Popp said. “Or maybe they don’t go to class during the season. There could be more radical changes, and as long as they’re wearing the right logo and the right colors, I’m not sure that fans really care.” Get local news delivered to your inbox!To play Maria Callas, Angelina Jolie had to learn how to breathe againIn addition to the Mbappé vs. Lukebakio showdown, AS's predicted lineup for the match also features other key players who will play a vital role in Real Madrid's quest for victory. The likes of Karim Benzema, Vinicius Junior, and Casemiro are expected to be included in the starting XI, providing experience, creativity, and defensive stability to the team.