From Cumbria to Colombia the fight against ISDS is on. We’re at #Cop30 to end this toxic system. #CorporateCourts

🚨 NEW in @politico.eu 🚨 Dozens of academics and experts have written to the government urging them to halt and rethink a deal with big pharma that would increase the amount the NHS spends on vital medicines. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Today a group of health experts call on Starmer & Streeting to “urgently pause any plans to strike a deal with the pharma industry that involves increasing the amount the NHS spends on medicines” Plans could cost the NHS £6bn a year and cost thousands of lives. 1/2

Britain awarded today’s fossil dinosaur award by @CANIntl in #cop30 for opposing a global just transition mechanism. ‘It takes a special kind of irony to tell developing countries they don’t “need” support – in a session about fairness and cooperation’ climatenetwork.org/resource/sol...

While the fossil fuel corporations and the petrostates hold up the action we desperately need at #cop30, down the road, the peoples’ summit is underway. Only people power will save us from climate catastrophe.

‘If you spend more on medicines, it means something else is forgone. It could be a hip replacement or a nurse’ 💯 from the head of NICE. We must not let Trump bully us into handing more NHS budget to Big Pharma. We have nothing to gain & much to lose. www.ft.com/content/c6a6...

So well put. I was inside yesterday when the security made us feel like we were under attack from terrorists. But who are the ones committing real violence? Many are here inside #COP30 - governments & corporations laying waste to the Amazon and destroying the wider world.

ISDS posits a major threat to the protection of the Amazon. This toxic system puts oil company profits ahead of the protection of people and the environment. #Cop30 should commit to the exit of ISDS. Great paper👇 www.bu.edu/gdp/2025/11/...

We need to stop assuming the resource grab of critical minerals is about urgent climate action. Too often this exploitation is in fact about driving forward the unsustainable & unjust economic model which created climate change. Great to hear UN expert Elisa Morgera at #cop30

Day two at #COP30 - our director Nick reports back from @caneurope.org's protest for the Belém Action Mechanism ✊🏽

Great event on the evils of the war on drugs to people, global south sovereignty and the climate, at the Colombia pavilion now. This is much ignored at COP30, thanks @healthpoverty.bsky.social for bringing it here.

The main demand from movements at COP30 is for a just transition. The climate transition must be an economic transformation that undermines inequality, neocolonialism & injustice. (I’m holding Wisdom 😉)

Join @nickdearden.bsky.social of @globaljusticenow.bsky.social to discuss hope for #climateaction in the age of Trump in #Shrewsbury on 2nd December. Nick's talk will come on the heels of the UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil. All welcome! groups.globaljustice.org.uk/shropshire/2...

The BBC has long pursued a strategy of appeasing its enemies and alienating its friends. The result is an endless series of capitulations to those political forces most determined to destroy it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbc-su...

I’m at ##COP30 with movements from across the world working to end the rule of the fossil fuel corporations. This week we’re focussing on ISDS. We need to end this toxic system.

Carefully timed pressure from Big Pharma again to demand even more money. Daily announcements from different corporations yet the CMA thinks there’s zero evidence of collusion?? Remember too 1/2 www.politico.eu/article/brit...

We’ll be at COP30 next week working with the Colombian government, ⁦‪TNI‬⁩ ⁦‪WarOnWant‬⁩, Seatini‬⁩ & ⁦E3G‬⁩ to demand an end to ISDS. Corporate courts are a major obstacle to climate action. UNFCCC should help countries exit.

Complete cowardice from European leaders. I stand with Colombia 🇨🇴 www.ft.com/content/8214...

🚨 Petrogas sues the Netherlands over public-interest fiscal measures: 💰 Windfall profits tax in fossil fuels 🏦 Withholding tax to curb tax avoidance #ISDS allows companies to challenge fair taxation of corporate profits. @somoamsterdam.bsky.social @bothends.bsky.social www.somo.nl/petrogas-sue...

Starmer’s tariff pact with Trump back in May was lauded by MPs and the media. But now we get into the detail.   Trump, like a mafia boss, is demanding we pay his Big Pharma mates prices which will put intolerable strain on the NHS and cost lives.   www.politico.eu/article/us-p...

Great on ISDS: “The ending of slavery was only possible because slave-owners were compensated. 40% of Treasury tax receipts were paid to slave owners. Nothing compares to the horrors of slavery, but are we witnessing a similar phenomenon… “1/2 www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...

Yet another ISDS case challenging countries levying excess profits taxes on the fossil fuel sector. How long will countries continue to allow corporate courts to override their sovereign rights?    www.iareporter.com/articles/rev...

The government can’t defend a system which gives neither MPs nor the public any meaningful say over far reaching trade deals. They know everyone thinks it’s wrong. But they’re not going to change it.    questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

It tells you everything, that even a Government as desperate to appease business as our own, is now at the end of its teather with Big Pharma. Just as Biden was. Big Pharma has far too much power. It needs to be removed from them.

‘Your taxes aren’t fair’, says one of the richest pharma corporations in the world. It’s perfectly clear now that these vampires will destroy European health systems unless we stop them. We need a new way of making medicines. www.ft.com/content/aaaf...

ISDS cases soar as rich countries try to secure access to critical minerals and fossil fuels. This is what ISDS was always about - neocolonial economics. Any country that wants sovereignty over its resources: ditch this toxic system. www.reuters.com/business/aut...

“Starmer’s investment deals with US big tech threaten to give them priority access to our resources – energy, water & personal data – rather than using these resources to meet public need. They’ll drive a coach & horses through our climate commitments” Pleased to be quoted👇

“It is totally unconscionable” that our trade with Israel *increased* during the genocide. Too right @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social #SanctionsNow www.middleeasteye.net/news/horrifi...

So Farage wants to cut the minimum wage for young people and super charge deregulation? Of course he does. He’s a speculator, a yuppie, a Thatcherite. He’s not on your side – unless you happen to be a wealthy financial trader.    www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

With the budget looming, there’s more great reporting from Abolish Westminster here👇 Lobbyists for the banking industry have been invited to sit in the heart of government.

Make sure you see this soon. It’s great. Don’t let our leaders erase the history of Palestinian struggle for liberation.

Trump’s Secret Trade Deals with Malaysia and Cambodia Revealed: Imperialist Bullying on Behalf of Big Tech, Other Corporate Interests www.citizen.org/news/trumps-...

We’re only beginning to understand the extent of Google & Amazon’s role in Israel’s war crimes, but what’s clear is these gigantic corporations pose a massive threat to each and every one of us. They are at the forefront of militarised capitalism. www.972mag.com/project-nimb...

BII has poured British aid money into dodgy big business for years. Now it’s funding ‘billionaire-owned luxury carmakers, telecoms giants, a company building new gas-fired power’ in the name of climate finance. One bit of aid you should cut 🤦‍♂️ www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

In her latest report, the UN Special Rapporteur specifically mentions Keir Starmer as an example of a Western leader whose comments covering for Israel, early on, paved the way for “a ferocious Israeli assault” and the genocide that followed.     www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

Corporations now threatening to use ISDS to challenge national security legislation. Let’s see how this goes down. Makes it even more insane that the UK is pushing corporate courts in new trade deals. www.iareporter.com/articles/hua...

The Times reports the UK caving in on the NHS paying more for drugs is supposed to persuade Trump to lift steel & whisky tariffs. No sense it will work, and in any case, a completely undemocratic bargain with the devil. MPs have had no say.   www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

"This isn’t something which holds any interest for most businesses. "More than anything the government seems to be virtue signalling to the most reckless financial and corporate interests – and risking public money in the process." Our director @nickdearden.bsky.social comments👇🏽

Britain has just been challenged under ISDS for the high court decision on the Cumbria coal mine. Why on earth are they demanding more corporate courts in their trade deal with the Gulf? They are a disaster for climate action. www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/gulf-tr...

Extraordinary. A Labour government is now demanding we include a climate-wrecking, democracy-defying corporate court system in our trade deal with the Gulf. Given most companies don’t even care about it, this is virtue signalling to the most irresponsible capitalists.

Strong editorial from the Lancet. The Government needs to listen: “The dysfunctionalities of the pharma model will not be solved by ramping up drug prices”   www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We need to stop viewing the slide into fascism as inevitable. And the way to avoid it isn’t to steal Reform’s clothes. Offer people a real alternative. Well done @plaidcymru.bsky.social

Average cost of a new drug in the US: $370k! Unless we want to bankrupt the NHS the government must resist Trump Raising our prices won’t lower them in the US. The problem isn’t ‘unfair’ global pricing, but monopolies charging whatever they can get www.citizen.org/article/rais...

Great work Public Citizen. Trump is using tariffs to bully countries into deregulating Big Tech right across the world The Tech oligarchs are demanding we give up our rights to tax and control their corporate empires. Giving in puts all of us at risk. Stand up to Trump

Uribe’s reign of terror saw thousands of civilians murdered by the army & fascist militias he was connected to. I went to Colombia & met trade unionists living in constant fear. More unionists were murdered in Colombia than everywhere else combined 1/2 www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Sanctions Now! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel is committing war crimes daily. It’s illegal, apartheid occupation continues. But because 20 rather than 100 people a day are being murdered, the EU stops pretending that it *might* do something. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Most people in Britain (& Ireland) don’t want trade talks with a genocidal state, nor public money invested in genocidal companies @caoimhearchibald.bsky.social is right. She’s trying to uphold international law in the face of Westminster’s complicity www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

The government cracks the whip on regulators again. They’re doing too much regulating and it’s making big corporations unhappy. Reeves’ plans are a recipe for (even more) dangerous monopoly power. Why not just let Amazon run the whole economy? www.gov.uk/government/n...