Pope Leo is going full TWAIL and I am here for it.

Full text of the Pharma Deal here. This isn’t a trade deal, it’s an agreement to pay tribute, a totally one-sided imposition. The idea we makes promises to Trump as to how we’ll allocate the NHS budget 🤯 www.gov.uk/government/p...

The Government has taken an axe to NHS price controls, given in to bullying by Trump and Big Pharma, and now sneaked this shameful press release out (which apparently had to be passed by the White House) just before Easter weekend. 🧵 www.gov.uk/government/n...

People in Cumbria fought against a coal mine and won. But corporate courts mean that’s not the end of the story. Our new film produced by Planet House Productions in collaboration with us, @tradejusticemov.bsky.social and @friends-earth.bsky.social earth – out now.

NHS staff boycott Palantir’s data platform “It makes me feel sick every time I log into the thing and I know I’m not alone in that. Colleagues are avoiding the news because it makes them feel terrible.”  www.ft.com/content/dbb6...

Awful. While the real criminals murder on a massive scale, protestors against genocide are criminalised in deeply political policing. Solidarity Ben and Chris.

"Sending the King for another state visit whitewashes Trump's actions. It sends exactly the wrong message, at a time we need to be standing up to his reckless bullying around the world." Our director @nickdearden.bsky.social quoted in @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

My take on the King’s state visit: “Trump represents the biggest threat to our security, prosperity & peace of anybody in the world. This visit whitewashes Trump's actions and sends exactly the wrong message, at a time we need to be stand up to his bullying” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

‘On the advice of his majesty’s government’ Sounds like a bit of discord there.

“The king’s visit will serve as an endorsement of this illegal war, and Trump’s constant disregard for international law.” Join @ukstoptrump.bsky.social. Don’t let the Government whitewash Trump’s crimes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

They don’t get more  “ideologically motivated” than Palantir – but this is great news. They’re scared. Keep going. And this isn’t only aobut the NHS contract – Palantir should be nowhere near *any* government contract.   www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Wow. Israeli minister celebrates with champagne - he can kill even more Palestinians. These people are genocidal maniacs. news.sky.com/story/israel...

In the Morning Star today: “Rather than letting Trump use bases to launch attacks, and sending the King to whitewash Trump’s crimes, Starmer needs to work to bring this crisis to an end, and he can start by being honest about who started this war.” 1/2 morningstaronline.co.uk/article/star...

Mark Carney’s ‘rupture’ runs up against reality. For Carney the continuity of hyper-globalisation is the goal, just without the US. But this is delusional. The instability and injustice of hyper-globalisation is precisely what led to Trump. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/rup...

Fascinating post. The public are with us on climate. But our media is broken, and they’ve handed right wing politicians and their wealthy backers far too much power We can win if we make clear climate change is about cost of living. It’s a class issue strongmessagehere.substack.com/p/whats-happ...

A new digital trade deal would be a huge opportunity for Big Tech to enshrine their power in international law in perpetuity. We need to coordinate on how we control and constrain Big Tech, not how we further empower it. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Senior member of Reform appears at a far right conference last week alongside a politician who said “If you’re Black, go back” As I say👇their policy is “to foster hatred & division, learning from some of the most divisive politicians in the world” 1/2 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Confirmation that the government’s toxic pharma deal with Trump will not go through Parliament before it’s enacted. And still Big Pharma demand more. These vultures will break the NHS before they’re through. We must stand up to them. www.ft.com/content/5cf9...

‘Ministers explore triggering break clause in Palantir’s NHS contract’ Pressure is working. Minister admits “We are confident we could do it if we wanted to” So let’s make them do it. www.ft.com/content/2d2b...

NO KINGS, NO TYRANTS London UK 28 March

So pleased to be out with @GlobalJusticeUK today. #Together we can beat the far right, here and around the world.

Nearly 3 hours since we assembled and we’re only just moving. This is massive. We can beat fascism. We can build a better country, and a fairer world.

Israel set to expand death penalty: ‘It will, in practice, apply only to Palestinians, and it will be a mandatory sentence to be carried out within 90 days.’ A brutal, apartheid state. Boycott, Divest, Sanction. www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-...

I was on Jeremy Vine’s show earlier saying we need to cancel the King’s state visit to the US 👇

This plant was closed thanks to last year’s trade deal with Trump. Now the government is forced to reopen it because of Trump’s war on Iran. A lesson - any deal with Trump only undermines our resilience and security. www.ft.com/content/802d...

Cyprus is right – UK bases on its soil opens the country to untold dangers. We need to bring an end to this ridiculous colonial hangover. Expel the bases. www.reuters.com/world/uk/cyp...

While Trump’s brutal and illegal war on Iran sends prices skyrocketing, corporate profiteers stand to make a fortune. I’m pleased to join @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social to demand these war profits are taken back www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Bernie & AOC call for a moratorium on AI data centres. This is what we need here too. To roll out AI infrastructure as we’re doing gives unimaginable power to the worst people in the world, destroys the environment and leads to massive social harm.   www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...

I’m in Politico this morning, calling on the government to stands firm against tighter intellectual property restrictions which will only make medicines more costly and make it harder to stand up to Big Pharma bullying 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/uk-s...

The cost of remaining dependent on fossil fuels is one we can no longer bear. The US-Israel attack on Iran is not an argument for more North Sea drilling. Quite the opposite.   Pleased to join @tessakhan.bsky.social in writing to Scotland’s first minister 👇   www.thenational.scot/news/2596874...

Police say they will arrest protestors for a ‘crime’ which the high court has ruled isn’t a crime 🤦‍♂️ Presumably there is pressure from the government here who seem determined to keep digging themselves into a hole. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

3 countries voted against this UN motion recognising transatlantic slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity” The USA Israel Argentina www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

NATO is not a defensive alliance. www.ft.com/content/6e0b...

Stiglitz, Piketty, Ghosh, Chang and over 200 other experts call for an "unwinding" of ISDS Writing to Colombian president Petro, ahead of the fossil fuel transition conf he will host next month, they say ISDS is a system for "paying polluters" that stands in the way of that transition #stopISDS

"The Supreme Court judgement ruling shows there are limits to what even Trump can get away with. He can be beaten. Now is the time for Britain to break free from the failed special relationship." Our director @nickdearden.bsky.social for 'The Fix' 👇🏽 macrodosepod.substack.com/p/the-super-...

I was on the steering cttee of Globalise Resistance. It was a peaceful, open group which organised events, protests, education. That the police infiltrated it and considered “mounting a destructive operation” really makes you question our ‘free society’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘The Supreme Court’s tariff judgement shows there are limits to what even Trump can get away with. He can be beaten. Now is the time for Britain to break free from the failed special relationship’ Pleased to write for @macrodosepod.bsky.social this week 👇 macrodosepod.substack.com/p/the-super-...

Another contract with Palantir, £30k a week giving them access to masses of sensitive data about financial crimes. Why don’t we just let them run the government directly at this point? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We begged the British government to exempt ISDS when they signed CPTPP. They refused. Now Canada has been sued in an outrageous case for refusing permission for a mine. It’s only a matter of time before it hits us. thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

Far more people want radical climate action than oppose it. There’s massive support for economic transformation & deep hostility to our monopoly capitalist economy. And yet we behave as if we’re in a tiny minority & global facism is inevitable. We’ve got to break the defeatism🧵

The Foreign Secretary has today set out how she will slash the international development budget to the lowest level in a generation. In doing so she has made a political choice 🧵 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Incredibly stupid. Cutting money for the international green transition, in order to throw it into (American) high tech weapons, does not make us safer. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Israel is leading the whole world into hell. Any government serious about deescalation needs to take action to stop this rogue state. Sanctions now. www.ft.com/content/e381...

At @neweconomics.bsky.social’s 40th anniversary today where @zackpolanski.bsky.social is giving a keynote economics speech, explaining how he would build resilience to Trump’s illegal wars, and reclaim our economy from the rule of international markets.

A deal on the MenB vaccine took far too long as Novartis held the government to ransom over price, despite huge public support for its development & rollout. Another example of why profiteering corporations should not be in charge of medicines. inews.co.uk/news/health/...

The UK, and also those intent on producing independent nations in Scotland and perhaps Wales, badly need to reconsider who are their real friends and allies in the world. Bullies like Trump, war criminals like Netanyahu, or those with a moral code who support international law and justice. Easy?

Israel + the US have lit the global economy on fire. We will face inflation, shortages, recession, debt and more, and it will be so much worse for the majority world. Never forget who did this. Netanyahu and Trump are the enemies of humanity. shows.acast.com/newstatesman...

Israel has assassinated one of the people most associated with negotiating on nuclear tech. Israel is desperate to ensure there is no path to deescalation. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

The royal visit to the US must be cancelled. Stop appeasing Trump. stoptrump.org.uk/petition-no-...

Trump demands Zambia’s critical minerals… or else he’ll cut up to 1.3 million off from HIV meds. We urgently need global cooperation to fill these aid gaps and allow countries to stand up to Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...