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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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
I AM firmly of the opinion that mistletoe should become the symbol plant of the Tories, rather like Labour’s red rose.
Why mistletoe, I hear you ask. Well, it is of course a total parasite. It contributes nothing at all to the trees or orchards it hangs about in, merely sucking the goodness from its host trees. Totally Tory.
It has a scruffy growth habit like uncombed blond hair. But most importantly, it is always there as an essential ingredient of the atmosphere of cheeky adulterous fun at secret Westminster parties — sorry, cheese and wine business meetings.
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