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Nick Dearden
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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 · 7d
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
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 6h
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 · 6h
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
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 10h
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
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 14h
“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

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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.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 14h
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 · 14h
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 · 14h
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.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 14h
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
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 14h
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 · 14h
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 · 14h
“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.
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Netpol @netpol.org · 3d
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
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Netpol @netpol.org · 3d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
Italy says hands off the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social #FreePalestine
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 6d
Protests in Italy all day today supporting the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social General strike tomorrow. #FreePalestine
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 6d
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 ...
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 7d
"Big pharma is already one of the most profitable industries in the world. Diverting more of the NHS’s stretched budgets to please these fantastically wealthy global corporations won't help patients."

Our director @nickdearden.bsky.social for @theguardian.com ✍️🏽

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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 · 7d
Big pharma is at war with the UK. If we want to save the NHS, we can’t back down.

By me 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d
The Kushner-Blair Gaza plan is a moral atrocity – and a policy catastrophe | Josh Paul
The Kushner-Blair Gaza plan is a moral atrocity – and a policy catastrophe | Josh Paul
Jared Kushner and Tony Blair’s neocolonial venture would be an incompatible transplant that would be rejected by the body
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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 9d
One feature of the British state’s undemocracy is that Whitehall departments have boards of directors, made up of ministers, civil servants and non-executive directors. I went through the CVs of all of the latter, and found extraordinary corporate capture: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
REVEALED: The big polluter and arms industry bosses overseeing government departments
Two in three Whitehall department non-executive directors have corporate backgrounds - and only one is a trade unionist - analysis released ahead of Labour conference reveals.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 8d
I have joined @justtreatment.org & @balancedeconomy.bsky.social to ask the competition authorities to investigate Big Pharma’s capital strike on the UK. We need to end this bullying, or else the NHS will pay big time.

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 · 12d
Really pleased this has arrived @triofrancos.bsky.social 👏👏👏
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 12d
Trump announces Pharma tariffs from 1 Oct. Countries must not give in to his bullying.

Time to call the bluff of Trump *and* the highly financialised Pharma monopolies
and build an industry that makes the meds we need at a price we can afford.

www.ft.com/content/dd6d...
Donald Trump announces 100% tariff on branded pharmaceutical products
Drugmakers’ shares fell modestly after US president’s move spared majority of generic imports
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 12d
Absolutely shameless

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Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority - BBC News
The former prime minister has been in high-level planning talks over the territory's future, the BBC understands.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 13d
‘The core problem of course, is not investment. It is who controls said investment’ says @balancedeconomy.bsky.social of the US-UK tech deal.
 
‘What this deal makes clear is just how much the tech broligarchy is dictating the state of play’
 
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Unequal partnerships: who's really gaining from US-UK tech deal?
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of The Counterbalance. This week, we’re taking a look at the UK and US’s mammoth tech deal.
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