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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White or red, wear your poppy with pride
PETER FROST opens a parcel and discoverers a bunch of flowers that need to be distributed to friends and comrades
(L to R) King George and Douglas ‘Butcher’ Haig; The Battle of the Somme, dead German soldiers in a captured German trench, near Ginchy. August 1916
[(L to R) Internet Archive Book Images/Public domain and John Warwick Brooke/CC]
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
A BROWN paper envelope as well stuffed as a Premier League manager’s payola dropped on to my doormat last week. Sadly, my bung wasn’t full of dosh, but actually something far more meaningful.
This was my first sight of the new recyclable white memorial poppies being introduced this year by the Peace Pledge Union (PPU).
This year the PPU have a new white poppy design, developed in line with their non-violent principles and commitment to the environment.
The first memorial white poppies were originally made in 1933 by the Co-operative Women’s Guild. Today, true to its roots, the new design is made by a workers’ co-operative in the UK.
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