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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Covid-19 is revealing the true scale of the capitalist crisis
It is not bankers who will propel us through this crisis – but workers, says BECK ROBERTSON
Business tycoon Richard Branson (right) pictured here in 2016 with then prime minister David Cameron at the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire
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
CORONAVIRUS is revealing the real face of capitalism, laying bare the staggering inequity that’s long festered in our society.
Now there’s nowhere for economic injustice to hide, as millions are made unemployed overnight, forced to rely on meagre government subsidy for their sustenance, while an underfunded health service struggles to cope.
The illusion of equity we‘ve long been labouring under is now being exposed as the fakery it always was, but the present situation is merely the tip of the iceberg.
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