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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PETER FROST looks at the woman at the head of the richest and most dysfunctional family in the land
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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
ALL ready with your red white and blue bunting? Made your celebration cakes and puddings like you saw on the telly? Here are a few scurrilous things I think you might like to know as you drink a toast to her majesty’s 70 years ruling over us.
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born on April 21 1926 in Bruton Street in Mayfair, London. This was not a royal palace or a big estate or even a hospital, but a rather posh townhouse on an expensive London street.
Her parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, who claimed to be a bit hard up for members of the royal family, had moved into the house belonging to her Scottish grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Strathmore, only a few weeks before Elizabeth was born.
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