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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A wounded Boris Johnson is even more of a danger
Any hint of ‘one-nation Toryism’ with investment and reform to woo red wall voters is gone – cornered, our PM will lash out with ever more reactionary, right-wing schemes, sowing discord as he goes down, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Protesters calling for the removal of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London.
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
IT’S impossible to know how the crisis in the Tory Party will play itself out.
Anyone who tells you they do know is kidding someone — either themselves or you.
But we do know that Boris Johnson has been seriously wounded by the vote of no confidence. A Johnson backlash presents serious dangers to workers, to women and to all ethnic minorities.
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