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 next Labour government will end countryside cruelty
PETER FROST welcomes new wildlife crime policies in Labour’s Hope Manifesto
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
There are rather a lot of things about our present non-elected Prime Minister Johnson that are hard to discover.
The man won’t answer many questions, even about how many children he has or what he learned in all those afternoon technology lessons with US pole-dancing businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri.
So perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that I couldn’t find if Johnson was a hunting and shooting type. We do know his predecessor David Cameron was a member of his local hunt in Oxfordshire but when it was prosecuted for wildlife offences he quietly slipped away. Now it seems Cameron has gone back to his traditional Tory ways.
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