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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Cash-for-Ash: a ‘green scheme’ that failed
PETER FROST looks at another whitewash in the North of Ireland scandal they call Cash-for-Ash
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
AT LAST the long-awaited 656 page report from Sir Patrick Coghlin on the Cash-for-Ash inquiry has arrived.
It delivers a damning indictment of Stormont incompetence and a multiplicity of errors and omissions behind a bungled green-energy scheme.
However, rather as expected, Coghlin absolved participants of actual corruption, saying: “Corrupt or malicious activity on the part of officials, ministers or special advisers was not the cause of what went wrong with the scheme.”
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