Gloucestershire’s phlebotomists have brought their historic strike to a close after almost a year of action, leaving a legacy of determination – and a clear lesson about the power of solidarity in the face of anti-union laws and austerity, says FBU general secretary STEVE WRIGHT
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This latest lockdown should have been the last. It still could be
While the vaccine rollout is welcome, we still need a proper strategy to suppress the virus in order to bring an end the pandemic, says DIANE ABBOTT
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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
While public outrage has focused on the abuse committed within Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, key questions remain unresolved, says JOHN GREEN
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
Tens of thousands of students left their classrooms and took to the streets against conscription and rising military spending. NICK WRIGHT reports from Berlin
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
BORIS JOHNSON has pledged that this will be the last lockdown. But nothing in his policies justifies that optimism, while it is impossible to call anything he says a pledge.
This latest lockdown could and should have been the last. They are almost universally hated and have closed businesses and undermined jobs and pay. People desperately miss seeing their loved ones.
Despite this, the British public still clearly and decisively prefers to be locked down than the government’s only alternative, which is another premature relaxation of rules, which risks rising new cases, followed by rising hospitalisations and deaths.
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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
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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