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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Hidden homeless: disabled and trapped
People with serious disabilities like spinal cord injuries are being caught up in the rise of evictions and forced into unsuitable and unsafe temporary housing. A new report calls for regulation, writes RUTH HUNT
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
IN the latter half of 2022 there was a record number of evictions.
The number of landlords asking the courts for homes to be repossessed increased from 14,436 to 20,460, which is up 42 per cent in one year.
Court orders for homes to be repossessed increased by 135 per cent and warrants for county court bailiffs doubled.
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