Nearly two decades after leaving office, the former PM is still trumpeting the same futile militarism and failed free market dogmas. The question naturally arises: why does anyone still listen to him, says ANDREW MURRAY
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SOLOMON HUGHES shines a light on Cygnet Healthcare and its parent company Universal Health Services
CONCERNS SET TO BE IGNORED: Protesters from Hastings and St Leonards Clean Water Action, in action on the beach in St Leonards, Sussex in August 2022
Very modest growth in membership serves to underline the need for a change of recruiting strategies, posits NIGEL FLANAGAN
DIANE ABBOTT debunks claims made politicians drumming up support for an enhanced militarisation of the British economy
The Morning Star’s AGM tour comes at a critical moment for both the British left and the newspaper itself, as it battles political fragmentation and media industry upheaval. Editor BEN CHACKO issues a clarion call to readers to play their part in the coming period
The growing argument that welfare must be sacrificed for ‘security’ is built on nothing but myth, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Esmond Romilly horrified Britain’s Establishment by turning from privileged schoolboy to anti-fascist fighter, writes MAT COWARD
AT THE end of April an inquest jury ruled that a patient who died after admittance to a privately owned psychiatric hospital near Weston Super Mare had received “gross failures” in her care.
Lily Lucas, a 28-year-old former mental health nurse, collapsed in Cygnet Healthcare’s Kewstoke hospital, and died the next day in Bristol Hospital, where she was taken after her collapse.
Lucas had complex and serious mental health difficulties which led to her death. But the “understaffed” Cygnet ward did not help: Lucas was drinking excessive amounts of water as part of her disturbance, which can be very dangerous.
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Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
