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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If you go down to the woods today
PETER FROST takes a walk in the woods that you and I still own, despite Tory attempts to sell them off
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
THIS month the Forestry Commission celebrates its centenary.
After the destruction and mass armament production of the first world war the country needed tons and tons of timber, for building, for pit props and 100 other jobs.
To provide such timber, the new commission bought large amounts of former agricultural land, eventually becoming the largest landowner in Britain.
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