RAMZY BAROUD sees Gaza abandoned while the genocide continues
Shadow lives
RUTH HUNT offers a personal view of the UK ‘opioid crises’
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ANDREW MURRAY offers some troubling thoughts on pressing political issues
Tensions have once again escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia over GERD, Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, and now Trump has offered to mediate. NICHOLAS MWANGI reports
The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
IN GP surgeries up and down the country, people with significant disabilities who have been functioning on opiate medication are having these vital medications withdrawn, forcing them to live shadow lives where they are no longer able to function.
Are a large proportion of those no longer able to work due to ill health – the same people whose pain medication has been cut or withdrawn?
My spinal cord injuries (SCI) happened when I was 18 but it wasn’t until I developed severe secondary conditions that pain became a problem.
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