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 dangers of anti-science conspiracy theories
PETER FROST introduces a new British species – the anti-vaxxers – and discovers that many have unsavoury right-wing views
Arch conspiracy theorist David Icke gives a speech at an anti-vaxxer rally in London
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
IT ALL started when my friends Jenny and Jon took their five-year-old twins, Polly and Freddie, to see the Robin Hood pantomime at the Milton Keynes Theatre in the week before Christmas.
They thought hard about the dangers of Covid, they even asked my advice, but they had both had two jabs and a booster and they guessed the theatre would be encouraging masks and social spacing.
On balance they thought the cultural benefits to the twins outweighed the risks. Who doesn’t love a pantomime?
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