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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Farewell from Frosty
In his last ever (ahem) column, PETER FROST says goodbye to his many regular followers
Rare example of the classical left-handed screwdriver
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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
WELL this is it. My last ever Ramblings for the Morning Star. I’ve been offered a page in the Daily Telegraph and that will be starting next Friday. True it may take a bit of adjustment to my political views but the fee is a lot better and my working colleagues much more posh.
Once you have wiped away your tears, or sent the “should have happened years ago” email to the editor, take a look at the dateline at the top of the page. Sorry comrade reader it’s just another of this year’s bunch of media April Fools.
Here in Britain and in other places across the globe April Fool’s Day has been celebrated on this day each year. Those celebrations have been going on for several centuries in many different cultures. The exact origins remain a mystery.
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