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Saio Gradin

@saiogradin.bsky.social
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Part-time lecturer in Global Politics at King’s College London (UK), part-time organiser, writer, workshop facilitator. Co-author Prefigurative Politics (2020). saiogradin.net

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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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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting. People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”. Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.
Photo from the telegraph. Red background with a roll of wheelchair stickers on white paper. Text reads “how having a disability became cool”
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
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Saio Gradin @saiogradin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
There is strong circumstantial but no direct evidence that the rush on Ceuta was orchestrated by the US and Israel
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Angela Rayner says the govt won't be introducing rent controls because they can lead to higher rents.
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Eric Nilsson @taggaintemig.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Älsk @tomaxe.bsky.social
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Andrew Tate är inte bögarnas fel
TOMAS HEMSTAD Klädhånet friskriver straighta män
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Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Japp vi vet, och du har verkligen bidragit till det. Du har vänt fallande utsläpp till ökade. Du har subventionerat fossila bränslen, bromsat elektrifieringen, lagt ner miljödepartementet, stoppat vindkraften, slaktat miljöbudgeten och ljugit och gaslightat oss i fyra år. Nu är det nog.
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Pourmokhtari: ”Blir mer extremt väder även här”
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Most people in this country are probably happy to see the back of Keir Starmer.. people on the left are looking at Andy Burnham & going, this looks a lot like Keir Starmer with a different face"
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Renewable energy, it is the cheapest, greenest form of energy & what we need to be doing is investing in that.. thats common sense thinking & the fact we've got Andy Burnham saying he's still got an open mind on oil and gas is deeply depressing"
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Saio Gradin @saiogradin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We all need to help @andyburnham.bsky.social ‘s team understand that new oil and gas is not popular and not safe, before they put our grandchildren’s lives at risk by approving Rosebank and other projects. Wake up Burnham, the electorate doesn’t want this!!
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/07/2026
Under Lula, Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level in a decade aje.news/4aer73
Under Lula, Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level in a decade
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Andy Lee, PhD @andylee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
In our Viewpoint (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...) we synthesize the gametic definition (outlined by Janicke et al below) and other definitions of sex (e.g., multivariate definition). We contend that is NO consensus on “biological sex” (maybe a consensus isn’t actually necessary…)
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There is No Consensus on Biological Sex
At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary appr...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/07/2026
My coauthor Jay Falk's postdoctoral fellowship was terminated by the Trump administration for documenting the hummingbird example in this paper.
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Operational biological sex definitions applied to hummingbirds (Bleiweiss 1992; Bleiweiss 1999; Bleiweiss 2001; Diamant et al. 2021; Falk et al. 2022; Falk et al. 2021) where sex is operationally defined by binary plumage phenotypes in the field. Each row depicts a wild individual hummingbird with morphological traits (beak length, plumage coloration), behavioural traits (territoriality) and their unobserved gamete type. This example illustrates how the same individual can be operationally defined as one sex in the field (based on external phenotypes) but classified as a different sex based on their gametes (which cannot be easily observed in the field), highlighting how definitional choices shape scientific reporting of sex.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Andy Burnham confirming he won't take our key infrastructure back into public ownership.
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Keir Starmer has announced his departure as PM and Andy Burnham is looking highly likely to succeed him. We @anothereurope.bsky.social and @ukstoptrump.bsky.social have written this open letter on what change would mean for Britain’s role in the world 👇🏽 www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/what-ne...
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What needs to change: an open letter to Andy Burnham - Global Justice Now
With Keir Starmer announcing his departure as prime minister and Andy Burnham looking highly likely to succeed him, Global Justice Now and allies have written this open letter on what […]
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Mathias Wåg @guldfiske.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ju mer jag tänker på det desto märkligare är Christer Mattssons utspel i DN häromveckan om antirasisternas antisemitism. Han gjorde det innan två rapporter släpptes, Forum för levande historia och hans egna Segerstedtinstitutets. Att trots resultaten skulle ändå antirasister/vänstern ges skulden.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This cartoon perfectly captures the far right’s position on sexual assault!
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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Del 7: Birgitta Ed meddelade att hon ville arbeta med ”existentiell hälsa” på sin herrgård. Ett halvår senare gav regeringen Folkhälsomyndigheten i uppdrag att lyfta ”existentiell hälsa”. Generaldirektören ifrågasatte begreppet - och fick sparken från myndigheten. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Gx...
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Skeptisk till ”existentiell hälsa” – fick sparken från myndigheten
Statsministerns fru meddelade att hon ville arbeta med ”existentiell hälsa” på sin herrgård. Ett halvår senare gav regeringen Folkhälsomyndigheten i uppdrag att
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Lotta Ilona Häyrynen @lottailonah.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Går liksom nästan inte att ta in hur grovt detta är. 1. Hitta mumbojumbo-nisch 2. Få din kille att tvinga staten till att adoptera din mumbojumbo 3. Få staten som kund 4. Profit www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Gx...
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Skeptisk till ”existentiell hälsa” – fick sparken från myndigheten
Statsministerns fru meddelade att hon ville arbeta med ”existentiell hälsa” på sin herrgård. Ett halvår senare gav regeringen Folkhälsomyndigheten i uppdrag att
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Thanks to ISDS, taxpayers face a £300m bill as coal investors sue over an aborted coal mine. That’s 6 times what the company invested. Our climate policy is being held to ransom by these toxic corporate courts 🧵 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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Taxpayers face £300m bill as coal investors sue over aborted mine
Environmental groups say the legal action, seeking up to six times the original investment, is a last-ditch attempt to profit from an unviable scheme
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Just finished Any Questions, up against Richard Tice. I knew there would be plenty of BS on climate, but he spouted rubbish on *every* subject. Even claimed that the EU is not our biggest trading partner, but the US. In fact, we have 3x more trade with the EU. He believes whatever he wants to.
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KCL UCU @kclucu.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
King's College London recently announced the acquisition of Cranfield University. We talked to the Times Higher Ed about it and what it says about the HE sector: t.co/2ZZnsXlz1S
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https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/staff-see-kings-merger-start-bifurcation-sector
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Miran @hevalsson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Idag togs vår klient Bella av gränspolisen & fördes till förvaret i Märsta för utvisning. Bella är transkvinna & välkänd HBTQ-aktivist med bakgrund i den kurdiska frihetsrörelsen. På grund av detta har Säpo klassat henne som ett säkerhetshot. Om hon utvisas kommer hon gripas & utsättas för tortyr
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Lars Sund @lasse2.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Ordet "islamofobi" kommer onekligen för en när man läser DN:s granskning av turerna kring det indragna stödet till Islamic Relief. Barn i Etiopien kommer att dö som en följd av det här. Riksdagen bör begära misstroendevotum mot biståndsminister Benjamin Dousa (M).
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Ministerns privata meddelande efter stoppade biståndet: ”Tänkte att du skulle glädjas”
Två av Sidas högsta chefer varnade för att regeringens nya försiktighetsprincip kunde slå mot människor i nöd.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
ICYM - Almost all – 98% – environmental claims and commitments made by meat and dairy companies over 2021-24 could be categorised as “greenwashing” - research paper #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
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Environmental claims, climate promises, and ‘greenwashing’ by meat and dairy companies
Animal agriculture has disproportionate environmental impacts relative to other forms of food production and accounts for at least 16.5% of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Many of the large...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Revealed: Palantir’s NHS tech is ten times slower than current system
NHS leaders privately told that “clunky” £330m platform built by Trump donor Peter Thiel’s firm is “slow” and has “poor user experience”, new documents show
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Please sign and share. Last week I spoke with a trans woman who is too afraid to accept medical care for leukaemia because of her profound fear of being outed by being placed in a side-room on a male ward. Trans people have a right to the same healthcare we all need goodlawproject.org/s/ec0359
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Trans people have a right to the same healthcare we all need | Good Law Project
Across the country, trans people are being denied vital healthcare that has nothing to do with their gender identity – simply because they are trans.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A retweet by Zack Polanski is now the main story across every single media outlet. Two days ago, it was revealed that Nigel Farage failed to disclose a £5 million gift from a crypto-billionaire. It gets nowhere near the media attention, for straightforward political reasons.
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Dagens Arena @dagensarena.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
NYHET | I veckan misslyckades EU:s utrikesministrar – återigen – med att komma överens om sanktioner mot Israel. Men det största hindret är inte enskilda medlemsländers motstånd, säger en tidigare EU-ambassadör till de palestinska områden. www.dagensarena.se/innehall/dar...
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Därför misslyckas EU med att bojkotta Israel | Dagens Arena
Anledningen är större än enskilda EU-länders motstånd.
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Elsa Persson @elsamaximizer.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Har skrivit en artikel jag tycker tillför en del nya perspektiv. Så här säger den tidigare EU-ambassadören i Palestina om sitt uppdrag: ”Jag framförde EU:s syn att vi ville se en tvåstatslösning, ett slut på ockupationen och att humanitär lag ska följas. Kollegerna i Tel Aviv arbetade för en <
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Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
SR har gjort ett quiz om skolan där man valt frågor och svarsalternativ på ett sätt som gör att man som läsare ska känna "oj, är det så det är, va bra!", bland annat om friskolor. Det får de, men de behövde kanske inte låtit Academedias samarbetspartner utforma testet?
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Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Rätt svar är att 170/290 kommuner inte har friskola med högstadium, men vad är detta för sätt att presentera statistik? I dessa kommuner bor knappt 18 % av Sveriges invånare. 82 % bor i kommun med minst en högstadefriskola. Antar att man ska reagera "då kan friskolors påverkan inte vara så stor".
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Rasmus Canbäck @canbackrasmus.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I dag i DN ställs rätt frågor till Sidas GD Hanna Hellquist om varför SDs organisation Hepatica får pengar - trots att risknivån bedöms som "extrem".
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I don’t know what makes one blog post blow up and another sink into obscurity. Here’s this weekends’s offering. “It is alarming that once again schools are being encouraged to take a ‘doctor knows best” approach’…” Sex Matters
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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
#Blog Our response to the #CallForEvidence draws on a combination of lived experience, formal testimony and emerging research, including: #LivedExperience of #YoungPeople who are unable to sustain education, training or employment due to ongoing ill health. www.longcovidkids.org/post/respons...
Black and white image of hands on a laptop keyboard. The copy says: Blog in orange, and then -  Response to Call For Evidence: Young People and Work Report. Long Covid Kids logo is in the bottom corner.
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KCL UCU @kclucu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
📢📢📢Then, cross the river and join us for a rally in solidarity with Palestine at 2pm in front of Strand building 📢📢📢
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KCL UCU @kclucu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
What can you do as a KCL UCU branch member? 🏘️🏘️🏘️Firstly, join us for a hybrid town hall meeting on Waterloo campus in FWB.1.62 (and online) 💻💻💻
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KCL UCU @kclucu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
We are calling on management to ⭐️reinstate Usama ⭐️protect staff and students from far right violence ⭐️divest from war crimes and violations of international law ⭐️commit to help support the rebuilding of Gaza’s higher education sector
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KCL UCU @kclucu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
KCL students who have organised in solidarity with Palestine, including Usama Ghanem, remain suspended and are facing repression both in the U.K. and abroad. Read more ⬇️ edition.cnn.com/2026/01/23/e...
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A student at a UK university lost his visa after pro-Palestinian activism. Some academics urge a reversal | CNN
Egyptian student Usama Ghanem took part in pro-Palestinian campus protests, prompting disciplinary action which could see him deported from Britain within days.
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KCL UCU @kclucu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
KCL’s institutional complicity in genocide and violation of human rights is worsening. For eg between 2024-2025 there was a 17% increase in the value of KCL’s endowment invested in companies doing business in illegal Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Read ⬇️ kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/06/k...
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KCL’s investment in genocide: new data and update on our campaign
New data obtained by KCL UCU shows that our university’s investment in companies implicated in human rights abuses and violations of international law is getting worse. For example, between 2024 (Q2) ...
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KCL UCU @kclucu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
📋🇵🇸AGENDA for the National Workplace Day of Action for Palestine: Thursday 12 February 2026 📋🇵🇸
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
A chicken that loses its head can still, for a short period, run around and flap its wings. This is Keir Starmer's government. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The left warned that Starmerism would end like this. Now all of Britain faces the fallout | Owen Jones
Peter Mandelson helped Morgan McSweeney privilege Labour’s reactionary forces to sustain the PM, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Israel has murdered more than 500 Palestinians in Gaza since it signed the so called ceasefire. One of the latest is a 3 year old child.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM. It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line. My latest for @thenerve.news 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
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What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here
Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org. www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
news articles about trans people based on keyword, left is cnn, right is fox. fox has  10x as many
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Daniel Wiklander @dwiklander.se · 23/01/2026
Så smutsigt detta. www.expressen.se/nyheter/sver...
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Säpo grep tre – alla kände Joakim Medin
De två toppdiplomater som misstänks för spioneri och brott mot Sveriges säkerhet är båda kopplade till journalisten Joakim Medin som satt fängslad i Turkiet, kan Expressen avslöja. Kurdledaren Shiyar ...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The BBC bans its journalists from stating that Maduro was "kidnapped" 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/exclusive-...
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Exclusive: BBC bans journalists stating Maduro was "kidnapped"
I’ve been leaked this from the BBC.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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...
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Life sciences: Science and Tech Committee presses government for details on US trade deal - Committees - UK Parliament
The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee Chair, Dame Chi Onwurah, has written to Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health, and Liz Kendall, Secretary of State for Science and Technology, f...
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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...
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Deals put UK-US trade relationship in the spotlight | Letters
Letters: Richard Torbett and Nick Dearden respond to an article by Aditya Chakrabortty on Keir Starmer’s medicines agreement with Donald Trump
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