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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Lions, donkeys and a Suffolk Anglo-Saxon king
PETER FROST introduces the man responsible for Britain’s greatest-ever archaeological discovery but who got no credit for it
(Left to right) Archaelogist Basil Brown, who led the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon burial mound at Sutton Hoo; a replica of the Sutton Hoo helmet, widely believed to have belonged to King Raedwald, and the 1939 excavation of a burial ship from an Anglo-Saxon burial mound at Sutton Hoo
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 minor but pushy aristocracy of Britain are a snobby lot who believe they have some God-given right to rule the land.
One way they try to enshrine that right is by sending their male children — and today females too — to schools where they can learn to spout a few phrases of Latin and adopt an enormous, if totally unjustified, self-confidence.
(Who can he mean? Can’t think of anybody in an important position today who exhibits that particular bundle of characteristics, can you?)
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