This essay on the Alfie Evans case was the main part of my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on the IAAF’s new regulations on women athletes with elevated testosterone levels.) It was published in the Observer, 29 April 2018, under the headline ‘A court is an unfit place for a case like Alfie Evans and its moral complexity’. It would be difficult not to share the heartbreak of Alfie Evans’ parents. Alfie was a 23-month-old child […]

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