The government’s strategy of dealing with Trump is a humiliating failure. But they’re unable to recalibrate, to recognise their policy lacks both principle and tactical sense, and so they try the same, failed trick once again. It won’t work. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It’s a freezing cold night, 2 days before Xmas but there’s a lot of very angry people outside the ministry of justice to show solidarity with the hunger strikers who’ve become a focal point of opposition to this government’s shocking, inhuman response to genocide.

After Greta’s arrest yesterday, there’s quite a crowd outside the ministry of justice tonight to show solidarity with the hunger strikers. #FreePalestine

A US corporation, backed by the US development budget, built social housing in Honduras falsely promising there was no flood risk. It flooded. The company refused to pay compensation and is now challenging Honduras via ISDS for  “moral damages” fpif.org/u-s-backed-h...

Israel shoots a child dead at point blank range in the West Bank. It’s just another ordinary day in Palestine. Not even a murmur from western governments. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

The government is ready to give big pharma a massive pay rise, but doctors only deserve abuse it seems. My colleague Tim Bierley 👇 www.lbc.co.uk/article/gove...

If you're wondering why Trump is trying to force us to eat chlorinated chicken, check out chapter two of Nick's book Trade Secrets! tradesecrets.globaljustice.org.uk/ch2/

📣Alongside 49 signatories worldwide, we condemn the attack on the life of Misael Socarrás Ipuana - a Wayúu Indigenous defender of the Arroyo Bruno in La Guajira, Colombia. Read our statement: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/12/inte... @terrajusta.bsky.social

Chi Onwurah to Wes Streeting: ‘[Your] letter was riddled with errors & withheld vital information… There’s very little information on how much the [pharma] deal will cost & how much will be taken from the NHS’s stretched budget’   Concern is building committees.parliament.uk/committee/13...

White House demands British supermarkets stock chlorinated chicken www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

"If the government wants to show it cares about our nation’s health, investing in the staff that help keep the NHS running looks a better bet than bulking up the profit margins of corporate giants." Our campaign manager Tim for @lbc.co.uk 👇🏽 www.lbc.co.uk/article/gove...

📢 56 academics warn corporate lawsuits threaten UK climate action As the UK is sued over the blocked West Cumbria coal mine, academics warn that ISDS lets investors challenge climate action in private tribunals. 📄 Read the open letter 👇

The trade ‘deals’ with the US are based on nothing more than Trump’s word, which means nothing at all. They are a tool for repeatedly bullying us. And they exist in a democratic vacuum. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Starmer's desire to appease Washington means he’s handing over our sovereignty and eroding our rights. "Unless we stop it, we’ll become no more than a US vassal state." Our director @nickdearden.bsky.social in @theguardian.com today www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My letter in the Guardian today 👇 The Pharma deal is just latest example of of Starmer’s submission to Trump. His desire to appease Washington means he’s handing over our sovereignty & eroding our rights. We’re becoming no more than a US vassal state. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump is pushing for more and more concessions from the UK. It's time we stand up to Trump! Take action now: act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4305

🚨BREAKING 🚨 Trump has put previously-agreed investment in the UK tech industry on hold. Why? Likely to strong-arm the UK into dropping taxes on US big tech firms. 🧵Here’s what you need to know about the tax Trump wants scrapped & why we need to hold firm…

First take on the S Korea deal: it’s great for big business. Of particular concern: There’s a new ISDS! In the year the UK gets sued *twice* under ISDS, the government is busy creating new ways to get sued in these secretive corporate courts 🤦‍♂️ 1/2 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

If you are in doubt about who's going to benefit most from this (still unpublished) UK-US deal, a comparison between the narratives in the UK and US governments’ press releases is revealing:

As feared, the UK government remained blind and deaf to warnings from health advocates and scientific community to not give into US and Pharma demands for higher drug prices. @martinmckee.bsky.social and I explain how bad this surrender is for public health @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/391/...

My letter in the FT today on the US-UK Pharma deal: The government has made an open-ended commitment to gradually dismantle the price control system put in place from the late 1990s. MPs need to ask ministers some hard questions. www.ft.com/content/884c...

Starmer has been played for an absolute fool by Donald Trump. We said all along you can’t negotiate a serious deal with this guy. But Starmer was trumpeted by the political class for his skill. Now… stop giving away our economy. Stand up to him! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As we said, this was never a finished trade deal, simply a vehicle for Trump to continue bullying us. Britain has not given enough on food or tech. And so Trump comes back for more. A damning indictment of Starmer’s strategy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/b...

‘I feel nauseated with such dishonesty, such inhumanity’ East Timor’s president on the West & Gaza is 💯 ‘I am thoroughly disillusioned with the so-called international community… that entertain themselves lecturing Third World countries on democracy’ www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Pleased to sign this. We need to do everything we can to stop Trump’s rampage through Latin America. Hands off Venezuela. notrumpwaronvenezuela.carrd.co

‘Britain’s trade department is more accountable to the big businesses driving the climate crisis than it is to the MPs we elect’ Brilliant piece by @adamramsay.bsky.social on the colonial nature of our trade policy and the scandal of ISDS! substack.com/home/post/p-...

My reading of this is that ministers didn’t have the power to give away NHS drug price controls in a trade deal with Trump. So now they *are* giving themselves that power. This 👇would allow the government to turn NHS pricing into a bargaining chip.. 1/2 www.gov.uk/government/c...

NHS budgets already being cut in ways that delay treatments and risk lives. That’s before we’ve started paying billions more to wealthy pharma companies because Trump told us too. We’ve got to stop the US-UK Pharma Deal. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Eurovision winner Nemo to return trophy in protest at Israel taking part in 2026

Iceland to boycott Eurovision over Israel's participation

I'm deeply concerned about the wellbeing of prisoners who were involved in Palestine Action protests, and are currently on hunger strike. Some have not eaten for six weeks. A number have been hospitalised. They are all being held on remand - without trial or conviction.

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

Britain’s critical mineral strategy is based on the idea that we can continue to take far more than our fair share of the world’s resources for the rest of time. We can’t. Let’s start planning a future which isn’t based on grabbing whatever we can.   theecologist.org/2025/dec/11/...

I just don’t believe Wes Streeting on the Trump- Starmer Pharma deal. Here’s some fact checking:

As predicted, the money which we’ve been told the US Pharma deal will cost the NHS is only the start. It seems the government is dismantling the NHS price controls set up from the late 90s. If MPs want to stop this, they need to stand up now. www.ft.com/content/19b0...

"An organisation devoted to saving lives is now being used as part of trade deals, its precious resources and structural integrity haggled away to multinational companies and foreign bullies." Brilliant and harrowing from Aditya Chakrabortty in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW: 200+ health and economic experts have written to the prime minister to warn that the UK's decision to funnel billions to big pharma would be a "catastrophe for all NHS patients" We need transparency - and a change of course NOW. www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/nhs-pha...

The Starmer-Trump Pharma deal is a “catastrophe” for all NHS patients, over 200 health and economic experts state   www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/nhs-pha...

“More than £3bn that could have been used for UK patients will go to big pharma for its branded products – money for care siphoned off for profit” A MUST READ by @chakrabortty 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hands off Venezuela. Hands off Latin America. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Why is British aid money being used to back new fossil fuel power in Ghana when it could be used to support green energy? Because, yet again, it’s being used to bolster corporate interests. Great piece on the ongoing scandal that is BII. inews.co.uk/news/environ...

Not only are Starmer’s disastrous trade deals with Trump going to do significant damage to the NHS, it’s now limiting Britain’s ability to take fundamental economic decisions (regardless of whether you thinking joining the customs union is a good idea or not)

At least someone is pushing back on Trump’s bullying. Handing over your sovereignty to the US is a very bad idea. Starmer should learn from Indonesia. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Trump is on the ropes, so he threatens more attacks on Latin America, & to destabilise Europe… and makes racist comments about Sadiq Khan.   Yet our government is still crawling to this fascist, signing away NHS protections. WHY? Stand up to Trump.   www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

How Russian oligarchs are using the corporate court system to sue European countries over sanctions. And btw it gives the same power to American oligarchs too – it’s a parallel legal system for the superrich.   End ISDS europeantradejustice.org/wp-content/u...

Struggle against data centres making inroads into Trump’s base, as they intensify the cost of living crisis. This is hopeful - but why has Starmer tied himself so tightly to Trump on this? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Official US policy towards Europe includes blatant interference in our politics, pushing us in a far right direction, opening our markets, destroying our regulations and controls. Why would you sign a deal with this guy? Resist Trump.

Who would have guessed? Massively increasing the price the NHS promises to pay for new drugs hasn’t unlocked Big Pharma investment. Because it was never a genuine problem. It was a shakedown. www.ft.com/content/0701...

Our front page looks a little different this morning, and that’s because we have decided to publish a timeline of the so-called 'ceasefire' in Gaza, as Benjamin Netanyahu’s brutal apartheid regime continues to claim lives 👇

✊✊✊ And if our government won’t join them, we can. Boycott Eurovision 2026.