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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False economies in Labour’s Budget
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
UTTER REJECTION: A contingent od disabled protesters move towards Parliament Square, London, to repudiate Rachel Reeves spring statement last Wednesday
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
LAST Wednesday our economically illiterate Chancellor announced £5 billion worth of cuts to spending on disability benefits which the Department for Work and Pensions admits will drive at least 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, deeper into poverty.
In defending these killer cuts, Rachel Reeves arrogantly proclaimed: “I am absolutely certain that our reforms, instead of pushing people into poverty, are going to get people into work. And we know that if you move from welfare into work, you are much less likely to be in poverty.”
Reeves ignores the TUC research which reveals that non-disabled workers have higher pay on average to the tune of 17 per cent over disabled workers, which amounts to over £4,300 a year.
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DR DYLAN MURPHY asks why Labour is continuing the Tory war on the disabled, when viable alternatives have been spelt out in detail
Any positives from the government’s green paper proposals are vastly overshadowed by the scale of the cuts to vulnerable low-income households, argues JENNY RATHBONE MS