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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Jeremy Corbyn: What I stand for in the general election
JEREMY CORBYN explains that peace, housing and decent living standards for all are top of his agenda as Britain gets set to head to the polls, where he has announced he will be an independent candidate
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (centre) has his picture taken with St Mungo's workers protesting outside the homeless charity's head quarters in Tower Hill, London, as they begin a month long strike over pay. Picture date: Tuesday May 30, 2023
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
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Yesterday morning I announced my independent candidacy for Islington North in the general election.
Today I’ve not long returned from a daily visit to a local cafe, and I spoke to many residents as I made my way to and from the cafe. I was delighted to receive many offers of support, and congratulatory messages for our campaign, and expressions of hope that we will offer something very different from other mainstream parties.
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