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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Breeding ospreys move south
PETER FROST has been to Poole harbour to welcome some returning, if scruffy, strangers
An osprey hunting for prey
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
THEY looked for all the world like four fluffy Spitting Image puppets of our esteemed Prime Minister. The same white tousled uncombed hair atop a pair of sharp eyes and a cruel mouth — or in this case sharp, hooked beak.
These just hatched chicks were getting more oohs and aahs than our idiot Prime Minister gets except from female Tory-thinking, promotion-seeking admirers at an illegal Downing Street party.
These chicks were, in fact, the first ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) to be born on England’s south coast for two centuries. The four chicks had hatched from eggs brought to their Poole harbour nest from sustainable nests further north.
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