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Exploiting baby Alfie
The death of Little Alfie Evans, who died aged 23 months early on Saturday morning, is a tragedy but that didn’t stop some people using him to push their religious prejudices, says PETER FROST
Balloons and banners tied to a bus stop outside Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital where Alfie Evans was a patient
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Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
SEVIM DAGDELEN argues that a legal framework exists for a closure of US and Nato military base in Ramstein
NO right-minded person can have anything but sympathy with baby Alfie Evans’s parents Tom Evans and Kate James. Alfie had a degenerative neurological condition which was not definitively diagnosed.
Top doctors reckoned they could do nothing for him. So it proved. He died early on Saturday morning aged just 23 months. It must be truly heartbreaking for his young parents.
The people I have no sympathy with are the gang of self-appointed defenders of Alfie who were noisily picketing Alder Hey Children’s hospital, sounding car horns through the night and chanting: “Burn the hospital down!”
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