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 sticks his trunk, his fins and his paws into the dirty business of keeping wild animals in captivity
Anne the elephant at Longleat faces an uncertain future
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
AMAZINGLY, it was only a little more than a year ago that having wild animals like lions, tigers, elephants and sealions became illegal in Britain.
At the moment a similar law is being introduced to make the keeping of those same animals as pets in private homes also illegal.
At present there are over 50 elephants being kept in captivity in Britain. As they die it will be illegal to have any more unless they have been bred in captivity in Britain.
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