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
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We paid for our pensions, the Tories must pay out
RUTH HUNT writes about the women aged over 60 fighting against the government’s unfair pensions policy
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
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
ON Tuesday January 30, the pressure group We Paid In, You Pay Out presented Downing Street with a collection of real-life testimonies from women in their sixties affected by the hike in pension ages.
We Paid In, You Pay Out is made up of members from a plethora of different organisations, including the Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) campaign.
All of its participants are fighting for the same goal: pension fairness. The campaign has evolved from one in which information was shared to a place where vigorous debate and polling on contentious questions or policy ideas takes place.
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By making Personal Independence Payments harder to access, Labour is creating another barrier for those already struggling with soaring care costs, workplace discrimination and prejudiced employers, argues RUTH HUNT
