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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Trashing democracy, trashing the NHS, trashing living standards and lives. We must stop the Tories
The government’s all-round attacks on every aspect of working class existence must be opposed on every front, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
People take part in a protest outside Downing Street in Westminster, London, calling on the Government to scrap the Nationalities and Borders Bill
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
BORIS JOHNSON is possibly the worst, most damaging prime minister of the modern era and the mounting scandals could yet force him from office.
There is even a (unfortunately, much smaller) possibility that it could do in this government as a whole.
Whatever the immediate outcome, and however it unfolds, the overwhelming majority of society has a strong interest in seeing them all gone as soon as possible.
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