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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A netful of silver darlings from Frosty
In more misogynistic times it was said ‘give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he’ll eat for life’ — PETER FROST proposes a new version: teach a family to fish and they will eat well. At least until pollution, plastic debris, global warming, floods, droughts and overfishing end it all
Salvelinus alpinus, better known as the Arctic char
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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
LET’S start with some good news. I have written many times about the demise of our native white-clawed chalk stream crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes). These had been forced out of their habitat by American Red Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus). These invaders had escaped from commercial crayfish farms.
Worse, these unwelcome US critters also carried a fatal crayfish pox that killed our natives but to which they were immune.
Recent surveys and river counts however, have shown that populations of native white-claws are doing much better, whereas the numbers of non-native crayfish are falling fast.
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One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
Nature's self-reconstruction is both intriguing and beneficial and as such merits human protection, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
