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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PETER FROST goes in search of a plague or two and ventures down memory lane to his churchgoing youth
A woodcut showing the massacre of the firstborn and Egyptian darkness, c 1490
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
SEVENTY years ago I started my education at Keble Memorial School in Harlesden in what we now call Brent, north-west London.
This was a Church of England (CoE) school that wouldn’t be taken into the control of the local authority until 1955.
The school took its name from John Keble, who also has an Oxford college named after him. Keble was a key church leader of the the Oxford Movement within the CoE in the early 1800s.
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