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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The bird that hatched environmentalism
Ramble along the towpath and through over a century of history with PETER FROST and a very elegant waterfowl
The great crested grebe sometimes carries its young on its back
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
LATE February or early March is the time to see one of the wonders of our waterside wildlife, and without any doubt the star of the feathered flotilla is the great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus).
Victorian milliners — hat-makers to you and me — and taxidermists slaughtered thousands of grebes, along with other birds, to harvest their beautiful feathers.
They were used in women’s hats of course but just as many were used in military uniforms, hat badges and adornments.
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