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Nick Dearden

@nickdearden.bsky.social
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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 · 4h
‘Vote Green, watch Labour move’ is Polanski’s pitch today at what is surely the biggest Green Party conference in history. And a nice touch that he calls Tony Benn his political hero.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 4h
End the genocide, drop the charges, deproscribe Palestine Action, free Palestine Zack Polanski at #GpConf26
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 4h
A packed Green Party conference. @zackpolanski.bsky.social strongly defending migrants and paying tribute to the brave workers in the RNLI, to huge applause.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 7h
The government desperately looking for ways to spend more NHS money on crazy expensive drugs that aren’t cost effective because they promised Trump they would under the Pharma deal. This is is just 🤯
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 8h
Israel abducts Palestinian children in the middle of the night, holds them without due process, assaults them and puts them in solitary confinement. A lot of children. It is thoroughly rogue. Sanctions now. m.youtube.com/shorts/QZjjE...
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Palestinian children in Israeli military detention
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 23h
Still going strong in soho square - speaking to people, I think Tom Watson has really helped get people out tonight. Thanks Tom! Kick Palantir out
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just gathering for the People Vs Palantir protest on Soho Sq. Lots of people with us, and a few Israeli flags ‘guarding’ the Palantir office.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The crazy thing is we’re still not getting the drugs promised. Like the drug mentioned in the piece which could help end HIV transmission but is being sold for $28000. It’s costs $40 to make it.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our friends at Nuffield on C4 tonight saying the Trump-Starmer Pharma deal will cost the NHS 10,000 staff. Here’s a test for Burnham - will he stop the implementation of this toxic deal? www.channel4.com/news/10000-n...
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10,000 NHS jobs cut to fund US-UK pharma deal, says think tank
Last year, Sir Keir Starmer signed a landmark deal with Donald Trump, committing the UK to spend more on American medicines in return for zero tariffs and better access to cutting-edge drugs.
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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high
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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💥 BREAKING: @andyburnham.bsky.social just announced that the Government will launch a National Commission on Electoral Reform 📰 Press release: www.labourforanewdemocracy.org.uk/news/burnham... 🌹 #Labour4PR #Lab26
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
20 years ago, Blair said we couldn’t even debate globalisation “You might as well debate whether autumn should follow summer” Burnham’s speech today is the opposite - a clear analysis of the damage globalisation has done and an indictment of the political class that failed us.
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European Trade Justice Coalition @eurtradejustice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Big business is using secretive tribunals to threaten our collective future. The cases are all around the world. Which is why we're taking action globally. Join the global days of action to #stopISDS and let's act together for an #isdsFree world stopisds.global/en/
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Its record should disqualify it from involvement in the operations and functioning of democratic governments” Today we join campaigners and unions across Europe to demand our governments end their contracts with Palantir 1/2 www.euractiv.com/news/kick-ou...
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Kick out Palantir, trade unions tell European governments | Euractiv
Call to eject US data analytics giant on democratic grounds
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“‘You were right’: Miliband tells critics Labour was wrong on Gaza” This is all good. But now stop arresting those people. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘You were right’: Ed Miliband tells critics Labour was wrong on Gaza
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can’t wait to speak at this year’s @EC_magazine conference. We’re taking on Big Tech and AI. And we can win. Join us to find out more 👇 23.10 Rich Mix, east London conference.ethicalconsumer.org
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Home - Ethical Consumer Conference
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thames Water's hedge fund creditors are from the US where water is 87% publicly owned (and sewage systems 97% publicly owned) They are ripping off 16 million so-called "customers" with no choice because they've been allowed to do so JUST TAKE IT BACK (5/6)
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What an absolutely ridiculous conversation England is having about its extreme ideological experiment with privatisation It's really not that complicated 9 out of 10 water systems worldwide are in public ownership (1/6) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Andy Burnham talks about ‘public control’ of the utilities but it’s a minefield. We can lead him through it | Will Hutton and Andy Haldane
Nationalisation is not the ultimate answer for companies like Thames Water – but they could be run for the public benefit, say journalist and economist Will Hutton and former chief economist of the Ba...
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
15-17 October - Worldwide days of action against ISDS. ISDS was invented to protest western interests in former colonies. Today it protects fossil fuel and mining conglomerates, financial interests and oligarchs. We must scrap it. stopisds.global/en/
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United Tech & Allied Workers @utaw.tech · 24/09/2026
Everyone’s talking about AI, but no one’s actually asking workers how it’s affecting us. So we’ve done it ourselves. Today we are launching the AI Workers’ Inquiry, a new study led by workers themselves, into the way AI is changing work. Read it at go.utaw.tech/ai
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AI Workers' Inquiry 2026 | Tech Workers Inquiry
How AI is changing work in the tech sector, from the workers who build, deploy, manage, evaluate and use this technology. A Tech Workers' Inquiry from UTAW.
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European Trade Justice Coalition @eurtradejustice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The EU has de-sanctioned Mikhail Fridman May as well have put out a massive klaxon alert 🚨 to every other sanctioned Russian oligarch to sue using ISDS tribunals right now!
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EU removes two Russian billionaires from sanctions list
Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman were cut from the blacklist after capitals yielded to lobbying by France behind closed doors.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you’re an oligarch who can afford to take an ISDS case, you can even get your sanctions lifted. ISDS is a way of bullying governments and preserving the ‘right’ of money to do what it wants, where it wants, when it wants. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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EU removes two oligarchs from Russia sanctions list as deadline looms
Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman delisted in what Ireland’s EU presidency calls ‘a difficult compromise’ for the bloc
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“We will not allow foreign governments to dictate how we set medicine prices in Germany. The problem is not that prices in Germany are too low. The reality is that drug prices in the US are far too high.” Wish this had been Starmer’s line. www.politico.eu/article/as-t...
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As the US investigates German drug prices, here’s why Europe should care
German pharma isn’t the only sector in the firing line: Cars could be hit too.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Labour Together changed its name but nothing else. Their argument: we can’t nationalise anything because of ISDS But the answer is clear: scrap ISDS. Why does a Labour think tank reckon it’s ok to let foreign investors dictate how we regulate water? 🤦‍♂️ thinklabour.co.uk/thinking/the...
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There is nothing leftwing about nationalising Thames Water • ThinkLabour
ThinkLabour is a think tank working at the heart of British politics to support the Labour movement with research, strategy, and policy development.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Saudi’s attacks unleashed hell in Yemen. Helping the oil tyrants in their battle with one of world’s poorest countries is totally wrong. And pouring more fuel on the fire of the Trump-Netanyahu war is incredibly dangerous. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK to give support to Saudi jets in attempt to counter Houthi fighters
Andy Burnham says he will urge Donald Trump to bring an end to conflict with Iran
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
All these platforms were originally sold to us as being liberating tools of free speech and expression. Now they're being actively used by their owners to suppress it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
‘A poll released on Wednesday found just 11% of Americans support an AI datacenter being built in their own community, while 65% oppose one – including 52% of Republicans – and 57% say Trump has handled the issue of AI poorly, up seven points since March’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails
It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mounts
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
6 parliamentary committee chairs write to the National Audit Office to demand details on how much the Trump-Starmer Pharma deal will cost taxpayers 👏 www.politico.eu/article/brit...
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British lawmakers demand probe into cost of Trump NHS deal
The U.K. government has so far refused to publish how much the deal will ultimately cost Britain’s National Health Service.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Keep pushing. We would not be here without public pressure. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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No consent for large AI data centres before Christmas, MSPs told
The growth of AI is happening at lightning pace, so what are the advantages and disadvantages of Scotland being at the forefront?
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Government cannot live in fear of overseas shareholders @labourlewis here on the threat which ISDS poses to Burnham’s agenda. “the moment demands that we remove the shackle on our sovereignty and step away from ISDS for good.” www.newstatesman.com/uncategorize...
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Government cannot live in fear of overseas shareholders
We must tackle antiquated trade rules if the state is to revitalise UK industry
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“We must tackle antiquated trade rules to revitalise British industry”   Great piece in New Statesman this week - @labourlewis.bsky.social urges Burnham to ditch the corporate court system known as ISDS which threatens to undermine his Manchesterism agenda.   www.newstatesman.com/magazine/the...
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The World According To Ed
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There were many ways in which the US and its allies could have responded to the horror of 9/11. But by building extreme security states, launching pointless forever wars and restricting domestic dissent, successive governments inflicted more harm on their nations than the terrorists could have done.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The government’s new settlement policy could be pretty big. But it will need to focus on more than imports of fruit. We need to push for proper sanctions on investors in illegal settlements including Israeli banks. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Analysis • Not just factories: The settlement sanctions could hit Israeli banks
Less than 5 percent of Israeli exports come from settlements. But the greater risk lies with Israeli banks, which finance construction in West Bank settlements – and could face sanctions that would al...
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here’s a good list of companies the Foreign Secretary’s new policy might start with 👇 We cannot be trading with companies profiting from the occupation. m.youtube.com/shorts/k2t2Z...
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UK has billions in contracts with firms tied to illegal Israeli settlements | AJ #shorts
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our response to the Foreign Secretary’s statement 👇
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our response to the Foreign Secretary’s statement: UK’s Israel settlement trade ban “extremely welcome” but must be just the beginning www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/reactio...
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REACTION: UK's Israel settlement trade ban "extremely welcome" but must be just the beginning, campaigners say - Global Justice Now
Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now said: The government’s ban on trade with Israel’s illegal settlements is extremely welcome, especially at a time where Israel is ramping up its […]
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Brilliant piece 👇 ‘Britain’s black-clad young men, stripped of security, hope and opportunity by austerity; denied decent housing and jobs, are persuaded instead to protect the capital gains of Silicon Valley’s ‘Big Money” by attacking migrants and undermining democracy’
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The hysteria from Israel today is to be expected. Miliband must ignore it. Sanctions are the only way to stop Israel’s war crimes. They will also be popular and legally justified. Today’s announcement needs to be the start of holding Israel to account for decades of atrocities.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Another victory for Musk’s friends. We can only defeat the fascists by dismantling the empires of the monopolists. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’
Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Agree with Albanese - a settlement ban is welcome but we must go further. Hope the government will include services and will announce new bans of weapons sales and military coordination tomorrow. The comms is an improvement but we need action. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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UN expert Francesca Albanese calls for ‘true paradigm shift’ as Miliband resets policy on Israel
Exclusive: UN special rapporteur on occupied territories says ban on goods from settlements ‘important’ but must go further if it is to amount to more than a ‘press release’
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I remember arguing with many serious commentators about this. Surely Venezuela showed definitively that Trump was mad. No… he said it was about oil. It was about oil. www.ft.com/content/4589...
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Controversial Venezuelan executive courts investors after Trump oil deal
Alejandro Betancourt is US’s minority partner in company that will control more than 65bn barrels of oil reserves
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London Mining Network @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨Public funding is being poured into a wartime mine to fuel a global arms race🚨 The UK Government has announced a £71 million investment in the Hemerdon tungsten mine. Demand for tungsten is overwhelmingly driven by the arms and aerospace industries. londonminingnetwork.org/2026/08/uk-g...
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UK Government criticised for backing ‘wartime’ tungsten mine in Devon - London Mining Network
The Government has invested £71m in the Hemerdon tungsten mine, a project which will fuel the global arms race.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Trump-Starmer Pharma Deal gets worse and worse. To make it work, the government is now about to throw money at Big Pharma even before meds have been properly assessed. No concern for if they’re really effective. This is NHS money. It’s a scandal.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The government still won’t release its impact assessment on the Trump-Starmer Pharma Deal. That’s why we’ve been forced to take legal action. They can’t get away with funnelling billions from the NHS to Big Pharma and not even tell the truth about it. www.thetimes.com/business/com...
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Ministers refuse to reveal cost details of US-UK drugs trade deal
Government agreed to double spending on medicines for tariff exemptions on exports to the US but MPs want to know financial impact on NHS services
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
From my colleague Jane Herbstritt 👇 Keep going Scotland. We can stop Big Tech.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A key calculation in the government’s decision over Thames Water will be the likelihood of getting sued under ISDS by foreign shareholders. Sadly, the company is overwhelmingly owned by foreign ‘investors’. So the likelihood is high. 🧵 www.thenational.scot/news/2649305...
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SNP hit out at Andy Burnham over reported nationalisation U-turn
THE SNP have accused Andy Burnham of making "yet another broken promise" following reports he has shelved plans to bring struggling Thames…
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It’s going to be a hot autumn in Scotland. The movement against data centres is already huge and has come so far. But a moratorium could sink the disastrous AI plans which Starmer agreed with Trump and his Big Tech mates, and force Burnham to rethink. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond
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