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Bed closures are taking a massive toll on Scottish healthcare
The SNP government has failed to ensure people get healthcare, not just where they need it but when they need it, says GORDON McKAY
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
AN 83-year-old female relative of mine was admitted to hospital last month with a potentially life-threatening condition.
The good news is that she got home last week and, when she did, she told me about her time in hospital.
Her story was probably identical to ones that many, if not all of us have heard or indeed witnessed ourselves about the NHS.
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Born from my communist social worker mother’s efforts to bridge healthcare gaps, Labour’s push for home-based care now risks becoming another avenue for the US corporate takeover of the NHS, writes RICHARD CLARKE
More than seven in 10 health workers says patients struggling with their bills — a public health crisis ‘that is entirely preventable’
