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
Labour in power must remember who it represents
IAN LAVERY MP looks at the first months of Labour government and warns a new approach is needed if it is to reshape Britain
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, arriving ahead of the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, September 21, 2024
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
LIVERPOOL hosts Labour’s first conference as a party of government since 2009.
Despite many positive steps taken by the party in its first few weeks, the press cycle has been dominated by far-right violence, the scrapping of the winter fuel allowance and ongoing briefings against Labour’s top team from within.
Conference offers an opportunity to reset the narrative close the door on a decade and a half of failure and offer a concrete vision of the much-needed change that the party was elected on.
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