So the UK has agreed to raise the price it pays for US-supplied medicines as part of a deal to avoid tariffs on UK pharmaceutical exports to the USA.... but the Treasury is not allowing for this price rise in its NHS budgetary settlement.
So, its one more mechanism to transfer NHS spending to the private sector while worsening the budget pressures on the health service.
Resident Doctors might also ask: if you can find £1.5bn for this, where's our money?
#NHS #pharmaceuticals #politics
h/t FT
The World Inequality Report 2026 makes for pretty grim reading, identifying as it does the range of massive inequalities that pattern the world.... on one level it won't tell you much you don't already suspect but is full of data for you to chew over.
In the end, the usual issues about the ultra-rich & tax, the role of gender disparities and the impact of (and on) climate change remain in the foreground, whatever the other (interesting) detail!
@cstross@wandering.shop the people who warned us this would happen received deaths threats and retreated from public life mostly.
How's that for some 'British Democracy' folks? Anybody want to follow in our footsteps? Oh, you actually are....oh....
PUTIN'S AGENT TRUMP
Trump says he is "disappointed" that Ukrainian President Zelensky hasn't read his peace proposal yet.
"Russia is, I believe, fine with it, but not sure that Zelensky is fine with it…His people love it, but he hasn't read it."
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war
KGB's Codename For Trump is:
Trump’s new National Security Strategy openly says the quiet part:
🇺🇸 Break the EU
🇺🇸 Weaken NATO
🇺🇸 Boost far-right parties like AfD
🇺🇸 Force Europe to bend to US economic interests
This isn’t an “ally”. It’s a hostile power trying to pull Europe apart from within.
Sen. Mark Kelly: "When Trump was driving the Taj Mahal Casino into bankruptcy, I was being shot at over Iraq. When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts. When Trump was peddling conspiracy theories against Pres. Obama, I was sitting next to my wife’s hospital bed. I’ve been through a lot worse in service to my country. Pres. Trump & Pete Hegseth are not going to silence me."
copy: @renewedresistance@channel.org #politics
The sole global carve out is for Afrikaners? This is insane.
Is US immigration policy really based around the perverse fantasies of the South Africans (Musk, Saks, Thiel) that put Trump & Vance in the White House?
Is this why Musk's DOGE went out of their way to shut down USAID and cause the deaths of 600,000 people? And Trump skipped the G20? Because Africa isn't nice enough to the sons & grandsons of white elites that believe they deserve to rule like kings?
This Death On Trump's Head!
Trump's ridiculous order to send armed troops into US cities was the root cause of this tragedy.
No Troops = No Deaths!
Last night, a motorcade leaves Medstar Washington Hospital, transporting the remains of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom - one of the West Virginia National Guard troops shot in DC yesterday.
She unfortunately succumbed to her injuries.
Condolences to her family and friends...
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
The FBI spent a million in overtime redacting the Epstein files.
Specifically, it appears to be Trump's name that may have been redacted.
My Afternoon With The Last Living Prosecutor of Nazi War Criminals
https://youtu.be/bCe8U_myWLg?si=jo0if4Smuhc4JBgO
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg Trials. In 2018, I spent an afternoon with Ben Ferencz who, at the age of 99, was the last living prosecutor of the Nazis. Here’s what he had to say in “Fahrenheit 11/9” about the dark turn the world was taking.
War crazed former Bush & #Trump official Marshall Billingslea says the ultimate target of a US regime change assault on #Venezuela is the entire Latin American left, from #Cuba to #Brazil to #Mexico to #Nicaragua
Drugs is just the cover for control, like WMD
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1991535485815255311
#latinamerica #nicolasmaduro
#war #politics #geopolitics
#tiktok #cdnpoli #canada #usa #propsganda #europe #africa @BLKNewsNow@mastodon.social @democracy@newsmast.community #welfarenotwarfare #usa #protest
#immigration #progressive #resistance
"Brits to help foot power bill for datacenters under government AI plans"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/uk_ai_growth_zones/?td=keepreading
"The scheme will impose no additional cost on other electricity billpayers, the document claims, however, if discounts were to be covered by the government, that would still equate to ordinary people subsidizing energy bills for datacenters via their taxes."
Stephen Bush (FT) sums up the problem with the Labour Govt's immigration 'policy':
'The problem is that Labour’s arguments convince no one, because the people attracted to their rhetoric & their policies on control notice that the UK continues to welcome some immigrants, while those who want a more welcoming position are turned off by the party’s new policies'!
As he suggests their incoherent position pleases no-one & emboldens the Right by normalising their rhetoric.
Remember: the only reason that makes sense why #ICE would deny clergy access to the #Broadview detention facility to minister to the detainees is because they believe the substantial bad press and messaging damage from publicly denying clergy access is less bad than the damage that would result from the clergy seeing inside the facility and telling people what they saw.
#politics #USPol #Chicago
"Trump ditches longtime ally Marjorie Taylor Greene": https://www.axios.com/2025/11/15/trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-endorsement-epstein
Trump wrote: "She has told many people that she is upset
that I don't return her phone calls anymore.
I can't take a ranting Lunatic's call every day."
This should worry Stephen Miller.
#GoodNews #politics copy: @renewedresistance@channel.org
"#Epstein’s human trafficking organization depended entirely on the wealth management industry (WMI). It was how he obtained the capital to build it, and it was how he hid his activities from the authorities. And none of this was an abuse of the industry; it is precisely how the WMI is designed to work. Nor is it an abuse of the law, because both American and international law has been carefully designed to accomodate the WMI."
#USPol #Politics #Wealth #Capitalism
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/epstein-trafficking-law-taxes-capitalism
@mattblaze@federate.social @imbl@social.treehouse.systems this is a very old issue in the base code of mastodon, and a very typical clash with the community standards.
I suggest adding some hashtags to the first post for better discoverability and visibility. People can find relevant content that way.
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