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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Nothing glorious about grouse moor murders
PETER FROST joins broadcaster Chris Packham and Labour’s shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman MP on the grouse moors
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
JUST one week after the far from Glorious Twelfth, when every toff and every rich spiv wannabe toff dons his tweeds and picks up his shotgun and heads for moors, the real truth behind this bloody slaughter has been played out at Jedburgh law courts.
Not only are half a million red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) blasted out of the sky during the grouse season, but hundreds of thousands of other wild animals and birds are murdered by gamekeepers and others at the bidding of the grouse moor owners.
Alan Wilson, one of those gamekeepers, pleaded guilty last week at Jedburgh to nine offences involving using guns, illegal snares and the highly toxic and illegal pesticide carbofuran to kill all sorts of protected and unprotected wildlife.
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