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Director of Global Justice Now. Author of Pharmanomics. Opinions my own. #FreePalestine

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 13d

Big pharma is at war with the UK. If we want to save the NHS, we can’t back down.

By me 👇

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Big pharma is at war with the UK, and the government can’t back down now | Nick Dearden

The industry has always wanted the NHS to pay more for its drugs; now it is pulling research and investment out of Britain, says director of Global Justice Now Nick Dearden

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 25m

Completely illegal. But not even Israel’s only war crime today. At least 9 civilians also murdered. Today’s actions alone should trigger sanctions. This is the peace of the genocidaires.

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 10h

It was painful to read most of the British media’s Orwellian reporting of the ‘ceasefire’ yesterday. Their contempt for Palestinian life means you would have no idea that a genocide has been taking place. The @scotnational.bsky.social is an exception. Thank you.

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 20h

Big Pharma is “attempting to shake down the UK taxpayer for as much money as possible and will take precious funds away from other vital NHS care and send it into the pockets of rich pharma executives”

Don’t let them get away with it.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

NHS price hikes petition shows ‘angry voters reject Trump's bullying threats’

Trump and Big Pharma’s demands that NHS pays billions more for medicines sparks three petitions signed by 300,000 Brits demanding the UK government stands firm

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 1d

The UK Government is set to cave in to Trump’s demands for higher drug prices - effectively signing a giant cheque to Big Pharma.
Today we & @justtreatment.org handed in 250,000 signatures to the Department of Health telling ministers to hold the line.

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 1d

The ‘A-Z of Global Justice’ is out. Your essential guide to changing the world. Looks fantastic too.

www.globaljustice.org.uk/resource/an-...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 4d

"A different way of making medicines is possible. Increasingly, our national health service depends upon it."

Our director @nickdearden.bsky.social for @mirror.co.uk

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‘Trump and Big Pharma are holding the NHS to ransom - don’t give in’

Americans pay four times as much for medicines than Brits as campaigners demand the UK government resists Trump's threats - amid fears the NHS could ‘go broke’

www.mirror.co.uk

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 4d

“Plans to build 10 large data centres in the UK could effectively wipe out the carbon emissions saved by switching to electric cars in 2025.”

A tiny number of new jobs too. But at least US corporations will make a fortune 🤦‍♂️

observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Ten UK data centres could cancel EV emissions gain

Research has underlined the lack of transparent and reliable figures for expected emissions driven by data centre growth

observer.co.uk

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 4d

‘Our NHS is being held to ransom by Donald Trump and Big Pharma. The Government must not give in’

Pleased to write for the Mirror today 👇

www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...

‘Trump and Big Pharma are holding the NHS to ransom - don’t give in’

Americans pay four times as much for medicines than Brits as campaigners demand the UK government resists Trump's threats - amid fears the NHS could ‘go broke’

www.mirror.co.uk

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 6d

I’m on @novaramedia.com tonight talking about Britain’s surrender to Big Pharma and Trump, the threat posed to the NHS, … and why this isn’t inevitable.

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Novara Live | Novara Media

Head to this page every weeknight from 6PM UK time for Novara Live—Novara Media’s news commentary show.

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 6d

More on the UK’s surrender to Big Pharma.

Incredibly, they have asked Trump whether this deal is ok before bringing it to MPs.

“Is this enough my liege?”

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

NHS could pay 25% more for medicines under plan to end row with drugmakers and Trump

UK ministers preparing to raise payments to end standoff with pharma industry, cited as reason for firms axing British investments

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 6d

You start off with complicity in genocide, and it leads you down a path where you end up the most draconian PM in a generation.

As with Iraq, imperialism abroad leads to authoritarianism at home. These measures wont help you - they’ll hasten your end.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Starmer targets inflammatory chants at Palestine protests for further curbs

PM says Labour will address suggestions of antisemitic hate as he orders review of protest policing powers

www.theguardian.com

Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 6d

“We are at risk of importing America’s disastrous drug pricing crisis and all the suffering it causes.”

Great statement from @justtreatment.org on the reports the U.K. is ready to give in to Big Pharma and Trump on medicine pricing

justtreatment.org/news/2025/10...

UK move to inflate pharma profits threatens NHS — Just Treatment

Statement in response to reports the government plans to raise NHS drug price limits — a move that risks importing America’s drug pricing crisis and putting profits before patients.

justtreatment.org

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 6d

If the government gives in, they are placing the NHS in extreme jeopardy. They’re also squandering an opportunity to give the whole world a medicine system that breaks with Big Pharma’s never satiated greed, and instead starts to meet public need. /End

tribunemag.co.uk/2022/05/pfiz...

Big Pharma’s Pandemic Profiteering Isn’t Over

Pharma giant Pfizer expects to make more than $50 billion from its Covid medicines this year, and it isn't a one-off – it's a symbol of the drastic inequality resulting from a monopolistic approach to...

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 6d

We don’t have to give in. As I wrote with @Maybarduk, we need to develop a backbone - and start building research and manufacturing capacity so we can no longer be held to ransom in this way. 6/

www.politico.eu/article/phar...

Big Pharma is using tariffs to hold Europe to ransom

We can have a world where everyone has access to the medicines they need. But both Trump and pharma companies will push us in the opposite direction.

www.politico.eu

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 6d

Trump, like the head of a cartel, is using his own form of warfare - threatening 100% tarrifs unless we get rid of our pricing cap. But this is the mechanism that has saved the NHS from extortion up to now. 5/

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Trump announces new tariffs on trucks, drugs and kitchen cabinets - BBC News

The US president said the move aims to help protect American manufacturers from foreign imports.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 6d

Even our very own Pharma ‘hero’, Pascal Soriot of Astra Zeneca has joined in. On his £20m salary, and after millions in subsidies from the U.K., he’s pulled investment and said ‘the U.K. must submit to Trump’s demands’ 4/

www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

AstraZeneca boss backs Trump on medicine prices

Sir Pascal Soriot voices support for the US president and ‘the great future of America’ as the pharma group beats City forecasts

www.thetimes.com

Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 6d

We joined @JusTreatment and @BalancedEconomy to demand the competition regulator investigate possible cartel behaviour (something their quote today seems to more than justify) 3/

www.politico.eu/article/ngo-...

NGOs demand UK competition authority probe pharma over investment pauses

A letter to the Competition and Markets Authority from three NGOs accuses companies of “suspected” anticompetitive behavior.

www.politico.eu

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 6d

A reminder: over recent weeks, backed by Trump’s bullying, Big Pharma has engaged in a capital strike against the UK, demanding higher prices and subsidies or they’ll leave the country 2/

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Big pharma is at war with the UK, and the government can’t back down now | Nick Dearden

The industry has always wanted the NHS to pay more for its drugs; now it is pulling research and investment out of Britain, says director of Global Justice Now Nick Dearden

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 6d

“We have kicked up enough of a stink and they have given in. This is the price you have to pay post-Trump for global pharma to continue to play in the UK”

Big Pharma gloating that, with Trump, they seem to have forced the UK to give in on NHS pricing🧵

www.politico.eu/article/brit...

Britain prepares NHS drug spending hike to stave off Trump tariffs

Officials briefed the Trump administration on fresh proposals for pharma pricing earlier this week.

www.politico.eu

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Netpol @netpol.org · 9d

If the state wants to avoid cumulative protests, maybe the answer is to stop its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative inaction on the climate crisis and its cumulative complicity in genocide.

It won't: and so, no matter how many new laws ministers create, protests are inevitable

Netpol @netpol.org · 9d

The Home Office sham "consultation" on cumulative protests closed on 29 September, so this immediate announcement shows Labour had already decided – yet again – to expand public order powers, well before the Manchester attack that is now used to justify it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 12d

Thousands and thousands marching through Rome right now to say: Hands off the Flotilla. A whole day of action and general strike tomorrow.

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 12d

Italy says hands off the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social #FreePalestine

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 12d

Protests in Italy all day today supporting the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social General strike tomorrow. #FreePalestine

Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 12d

My friend Ewa Jasiewicz has been kidnapped by Israeli forces in an act of international piracy. She’s a hero, and the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social has ignited global protest about the genocide.

Thoughts are with Ewa. I’m writing to Starmer to demand action.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

‘I was on the deadly 2010 Gaza flotilla and am sailing again. Israel could kill us’

Ewa Jasiewicz, a British-Polish activist and journalist, was on board the 2010 Gaza aid flotilla in which nine activists were killed. As she sails to Gaza for a second time, she tells Alex Croft that ...

www.independent.co.uk

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