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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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
ABOUT 60-plus years ago when I was a snotty-nosed schoolboy in shorts and a cap, I did some things that make me feel very embarrassed today. I kept all sorts of native wild animals in cages.
Today it would be illegal, and rightly so, but these were days before the words environment, sustainability or conservation were widely heard about.
I kept caterpillars and watched them turn into butterflies and frogspawn that became tiny froglets. Newts were a real favourite, along with lizards, slowworms and one very handsome yard-long grass snake.
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