What will be the cost of Keir Starmer’s new medicines deal with Donald Trump? British lives | Aditya Chakrabortty More than £3bn that could have been used for UK patients will go to big pharma for its branded products, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

"An organisation devoted to saving lives is now being used as part of trade deals, its precious resources and structural integrity haggled away to multinational companies and foreign bullies."

Brilliant and harrowing from Aditya Chakrabortty in @theguardian.com

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🎄 No one should spend Christmas alone in Market Drayton!
The Together@ Charity Christmas Lunch at The Grove School is providing a festive meal and companionship for around 80 residents who would otherwise be on their own.

Find out how to join or get involved 👉
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The Shrewsbury repair cafe giving old items a new lease of life Those behind the Shrewsbury Repair Cafe say it has exploded in popularity since beginning in 2017.

In a culture of over-consumerism and next-day deliveries, repair cafés — like the one based at Shrewsbury URC in the West Midlands Synod, featured in this BBC report — have sprung up as an antidote, helping to prolong the life of the items we already own.
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Awareness raising stall on climate change on Shrewsbury High Street

Enthusing conversations about the #Climate Change Summit in #Brazil and building a greener and fairer world on #Shrewsbury High Street on Saturday! 🇧🇷 🌍 💚 Looking forward to @nickdearden.bsky.social sharing the energy from the grassroots groups in Brazil in Shrewsbury on 2nd December. #COP30

This has been a frustrating 2 weeks but with moments of real hope. The hope comes from an increasingly angry and connected movement which will no longer let big business and political leaders burn our world for their own self interest.

The fight continues.

UK climate aid is lining the pockets of billionaires Company trusted with doling out government’s climate finance has invested it in luxury car makers and fossil fuel companies

5/ Climate change was created by the rich. Most of the world can’t and shouldn’t pay the price to solve this problem. We need finance. Yet rich countries like the UK are cutting budgets, leaving us without a solution.

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Colombia Announces 1st International Phase-Out Conference — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative Colombia has announced its plan to host the First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026. The landmark conference will provide a global platform for countries to coop...

We need an alternative. That’s why we’ve been campaigning for an FFT. We can no longer by held to ransom by petro-states like Saudi or the global north refusing to engage in a real just transition. But hope here:

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4/ BUT This COP failed to chart a path away from fossil fuels. This is scandalous. Seems Europe has done a deal with the petro-states. We don’t commit to finance, they don’t commit to fossil fuel phase out. Criminals. Never forget.

‘COP30 must declare an end to ISDS’, delegates told - Global Justice Now Colombia joins campaigners at event for ISDS-free world UK fossil fuel investors claim more than twice as much money as British government has paid in climate finance Campaigners yesterday launched […...

3/ The transformation must include radical changes to a trade system which protects fossil fuel interests. It’s good that is on the agenda. We will fight to make the world ISDS-free and ditch a system in which the victims compensate the climate criminals.

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Bam! What is the acronym everyone is talking about at Cop30? Securing the Belém Action Mechanism is a top priority for climate justice advocates at the talks in Brazil

2/ Movements demanded a just transition mechanism and we made progress. A massive achievement in the face of European obstruction. We can’t fight climate change without an economic transformation.

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Indigenous activists storm COP30 climate summit in Brazil, demanding action Protest comes as Brazil's leader Lula says COP30 participants should be 'inspired' by Indigenous peoples.

Thoughts on #COP30:

1/ This is the first time in years delegates have been brought face to face with those on the frontline. The indigenous communities are the heroes of this COP. They refused to be silenced.

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Colombia slams international trade rules that punish states for climate action Colombian Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres has called for reform of international arbitration tribunals, saying they’re “one of the greatest obstacles” to the energy transition and favor corpor...

Colombia slams international trade rules that punish states for climate action

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UK being sued by billionaire Russian oligarch in ‘secret corporate court’ - Global Justice Now THE UK government is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court, it has been revealed. Answering a question in Parliament from Labour MP Martin Rhodes […]

🚨 NEW: The UK is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court 🚨

Mikhail Maratovich Fridman - one of the wealthiest individuals in the world - has brought a case against the UK under #ISDS

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The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision

A standout awful, but not in direction unusual, experience of the Home Office #HostileEnvironment

So much wasted time and potential
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Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures

Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments

Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures

Glad Bishop Anderson’s spoken out ✔️ Agree strongly!

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Last film from #cop30. We’ve been fighting ISDS here all week because these corporate courts = climate finance in reverse. The victims of the crisis paying the perpetrators. It’s obscene. Abolish ISDS.

We’re gathering for the climate justice mobilisation - led by indigenous communities - demanding a just transition. #cop30

From Cumbria to Colombia the fight against ISDS is on. We’re at #Cop30 to end this toxic system. #CorporateCourts

As COP30 unfolds in Belém, a study has warned that ISDS rules may make Amazon protection expensive for the very governments trying to save it. aftinet.org.au/new-study-is...

‘Death by a thousand cuts’: the people who could face deportation under Reform As party’s rise fuels fears over future visa rules, people share how the lives they have built are in jeopardy

“The reminders that your life may be temporary are a constant drain on your mental health. The big news announcements from all the parties take their toll. It’s always there in your mind that your way of life can be taken away from you.“

Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.

To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.

Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.

🚨 NEW in @politico.eu 🚨

Dozens of academics and experts have written to the government urging them to halt and rethink a deal with big pharma that would increase the amount the NHS spends on vital medicines. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Day two at #COP30 - our director Nick reports back from @caneurope.org's protest for the Belém Action Mechanism ✊🏽

I’m at ##COP30 with movements from across the world working to end the rule of the fossil fuel corporations. This week we’re focussing on ISDS. We need to end this toxic system.

Poster publicising talk on climate action by Global Justice Now Director Nick Dearden in Shrewsbury on 2nd December 2025.

Join @nickdearden.bsky.social of @globaljusticenow.bsky.social to discuss hope for #climateaction in the age of Trump in #Shrewsbury on 2nd December. Nick's talk will come on the heels of the UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil. All welcome!

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Gulf trade deal could ‘lock in’ more rights for fossil fuel industry, campaigners warn - Global Justice Now UK government reported to be demanding corporate courts as a red line in deal with six Gulf countries The British government has been criticised for demanding investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) ...

Britain has just been challenged under ISDS for the high court decision on the Cumbria coal mine. Why on earth are they demanding more corporate courts in their trade deal with the Gulf? They are a disaster for climate action.

www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/gulf-tr...

"Given war, exploitation and climate change are forcing many globally to flee their homes, it is time for more politicians to show compassion and decency towards asylum seekers and refugees."

Great from Global Justice Ayrshire in @heraldscotland.bsky.social 👏🏼

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UK: Stop Corporations Exploiting Colombia The UK-Colombia investment deal is letting British companies undermine human rights and the environment, using shadowy 'corporate courts'. Colombia is facing a total of $13 billion in cases. In most, ...

The UK-Colombia deal is letting British companies undermine human rights and the environment using corporate courts.

Colombia faces $13 BILLION in cases - for protecting the environment and Indigenous peoples rights.

Learn more and sign our petition 👇

act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4230

It’s Green Drinks time again! 💚

Join us this Monday evening to hang out with awesome folks who care about community, our shared future, and the planet.

Everyone’s welcome — see you there! 🌿✨

UK closes in on drug pricing deal with White House NHS likely to pay billions more for some medicines in exchange for lower tariffs on British pharma exports

FT reports the UK is prepared to give into Pharma monopolies + Trump and hand billions more of the NHS budget to Big Pharma. A truly dreadful decision if it comes to pass.

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