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 Riddle of Erskine Childers
PETER FROST looks back 40 years to an all-time favourite book of his
Erskine Childers, with his wife Molly, on a Baltic cruise in their yacht Asgard in 1910
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
IN THE summer of 1979, 40 years ago, I went to see a just-released film, The Riddle of the Sands. I had been waiting for the film of one of my favourite books for a very long time.
The 1903 novel by Erskine Childers, like the film, is set in the misty chain of Frisian Islands that run along the North Sea coasts of Holland, Germany and Denmark.
Over the years I have been able to explore some of those islands and what an amazing landscape they are.
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