With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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Like a bird on the wing
PETER FROST introduces a pair of bird lovers and some of the birds they keep at home
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
MY FRIENDS Judith and Richard are just mad about birds. Many years ago I worked with Richard and still remember when he rescued an injured bird — a thrush, I think. He kept it in a comfy nest in a cardboard box and over several weeks nursed it back to health and eventual release.
Jude and Rich used to have couple of dovecotes in their garden that attracted both white doves and various kinds of wild pigeons. I was always amazed by the diversity of pigeon like birds that visited the dovecotes, even some top-flight racing pigeons.
Officially there is no division between pigeons and doves. Depending on the situation and your views, both can either be attractive pets or ’orrible pests. Worldwide there are more than 250 distinct types of doves and pigeons.
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