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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Despite climate change and pollution, it was a bumper year for returning wildlife in and around Britain's seas — PETER FROST gets his feet wet in this review of Britain’s marine scene
After 30 years puffins are back on the Isle of Man
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
TO MARK the arrival of 2022, the Wildlife Trust’s Living Seas team have compiled their highs and lows of the last 12 months from around Britain.
Some of them I mentioned in an earlier more general countryside review — but this new maritime report has some conservation successes, as well as noting the increasing disruption to our seas.
Climate catastrophe is disrupting marine life just as much as it does life on land. Also a big increase in disturbance to marine life from human activities is harming marine plants and animals.
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