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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Bring on the tiger, I’ll fight it to the death
PETER FROST discovers a most obscene so-called sport – bare-knuckle fights against tigers
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
I HAVE written previously in these Ramblings that there are more captive tigers (Panthera tigris) in the US state of Texas than there are wild tigers in the rest of the world put together.
In Texas, it is simpler to own a tiger than a dangerous dog. According to estimates, there could be up to 5,000 tigers living in this southern state of the United States.
So what do they do with all these tigers? One huge trade is supplying cuddly young tiger cubs as the ultimate accessory for weddings, fashion shows, first nights and other glamorous events.
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