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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Who is Dominic Cummings?
PETER FROST uncovers a few facts about the man who it seems has a different coronavirus rule book from the rest of us
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
JUST WHO is Dominic Cummings, who, if everyone except the Prime Minister’s press office is to be believed, drove himself his wife and child to a house in Durham next door to where his parents live and self-isolated themselves and the child in that house?
We do know he refused the offers of help looking after his child from his wife’s sister who lives nearby in London and presumably couldn’t find any help from the various organisations that he advised the Cabinet to recommend to the plebs.
It seems he did the 500-mile-plus round trip at least twice — some suggest three times — all with the comfort stops that any four-year-old would demand on a four-hour, 270-mile journey.
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