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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Thatcherite economics, Enoch Powell’s policies and repression
The cost-of-living crisis is no ‘accident’ – it’s deliberate policy by the Tory government, writes DIANE ABBOTT
TORIES OUT! The People's Assembly Against Austerity protest near Downing Street on April 2 2022
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
THE media reaction to the Queen’s Speech was rather odd. Apart from a couple of die-hard Boris Johnson supporters (yes, I know), the overwhelming majority of the commentary was negative, even including The Times newspaper, as well as The Guardian and others.
This reflects the government’s deep unpopularity and general dissatisfaction with the series of crises it has caused or contributed to.
But there was also a widespread misunderstanding, one the labour movement should not make.
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