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 idea of renationalisation refuses to die
The crisis in the privatised water companies was inevitable – as private utilities will always race to the bottom with cuts to services in order to maximise profits, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Members of the public and protesters from Hastings and St Leonards Clean Water Action, protest against raw sewage release incidents on the beach in St Leonards, Sussex. Picture date: Friday August 26, 2023
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
THE crisis in Thames Water has revived calls for renationalisation of the company as well as the entire water network.
There are reports that even this government is considering a forced renationalisation, because the financial situation is so dire.
For those of us who have long argued for renationalisation, crises at companies like Thames Water are no surprise and the case for renationalisation unanswerable.
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British Steel has vindicated what the left has said all along — nationalisation of our key industries is common sense, and it’s the neoliberals who are now clearly the ideologically driven zealots, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP