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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We need to reverse these Tory attacks on workers and the poor
Now is not the time for minor change or adjustments – we need a genuine growth and prosperity plan that matches the scale of the crisis, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Members of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) and the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) are joined by their families on the picket line outside London Euston train station as members of both unions take part in a fresh strike over jobs, pay and conditions.
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
OVER many years numerous authors have written about the role of disasters in creating conditions to implement huge attacks on living standards. These disasters are not necessarily naturally occurring. They can be the result of policy.
A week ago the new Tory government that no-one elected deliberately created a crisis which they hope to use to lower living standards for the vast majority of people in this country.
First they provided huge giveaways for big business and the rich. They will then go on to use this crisis of their own making to make enormous cuts in public-sector services, public-sector pay and benefits for the poor. Of course, Labour should commit to reversing every single one of these attacks.
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