Gloucestershire’s phlebotomists have brought their historic strike to a close after almost a year of action, leaving a legacy of determination – and a clear lesson about the power of solidarity in the face of anti-union laws and austerity, says FBU general secretary STEVE WRIGHT
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The woman who will sell our NHS to the United States
In the week test and trace has been declared inadequate, PETER FROST finds out a bit more about the woman friend Prime Minister Johnson put in charge. He calls her his Dido
Diana Mary Harding, Baroness Harding of Winscombe
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
While public outrage has focused on the abuse committed within Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, key questions remain unresolved, says JOHN GREEN
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
Tens of thousands of students left their classrooms and took to the streets against conscription and rising military spending. NICK WRIGHT reports from Berlin
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
PRIME MINISTER Boris Johnson likes to give the impression he is an accomplished classicist.
He thinks the occasional, often dodgy, Latin phrase slipped into an otherwise incoherent speech gives him an aura of superior intelligence.
Sorry, old boy, but we know you barely scraped a 2:1 in what is universally known as the posh boy’s soft subject — classics.
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