The Week

• The British Parliament voted against assisted suicide — except in the case of the Labour party.

• Joe Biden mulls his presidential options; on the same swing through New York in which he told a Late Show audience that he was not ready to decide, he met with Robert Wolf, a heavyweight Obama bundler. Unlike Hillary Clinton, Biden likes campaigning; there seems to be a human being inside him; and Americans sympathized with him after the death of his son Beau. Against this must be set his deficiencies as a candidate and a man. He has a motor mouth (the vice of his virtue — he is open, and openly indiscreet). He is a bitter partisan: His conduct in debate with Paul Ryan in 2012 was unpleasant, his behavior during Judge Robert Bork’s 1987 confirmation hearings was savage. And his first presidential race ended in a storm of blunders. In a speech describing his life story, he plagiarized details of the life of British Labourite Neil Kinnock. After that revelation came the discovery of plagiarized bits in other speeches, plus the fact that he had flunked a course in law school for plagiarizing five pages of a paper. Reckless, rude, dishonest, dumb: It is a measure of the Democrats’ disarray that this is the profile of their savior.