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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A posy of flowers
PETER FROST roots through the huge piles of flowers appearing all over our streets and finds a few fragrant but fascinating facts
Sunflowers in Britain are usually grown for their seeds to make into birdfeed
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
ARE you a republican or a royalist? Whichever, you’ll almost certainly have heard about the fact that Queen Elizabeth II has died after 70 years on the throne and now we have King Charles III, soon to be joined by Queen Camilla.
Apparently we also have a new prime minister too but you will need to Google if you want to know the latest on that.
Few of us, whatever our views, would want to celebrate the death of any old lady, but I couldn’t help seeing one group of people who seemed to be getting very happy and excited about Mrs Windsor’s passing.
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