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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Let’s look after our threatened hedgehogs
PETER FROST reflects on our rapidly diminishing population of one of his favourite British wild mammals
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
AN URGENT phone call from Sophie, a friend of mine, last week had some very good news.
Her hedgehog house, which I helped to built last summer, had not just survived but she had seen the first hedgehog emerged from hibernation.
No hoglets yet but any babies probably won’t appear until June or July. We can only hope.
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