Suzanne Loughlin

@andrewfeinstein @EuropeanPowell Shouldn’t be allowed to sit in the House of Lords and have vested interests like this: “Tom Watson sits on Palantir’s advisory board. He is also chair of the advisory council for Lodestone Communications, the lobbying firm Palantir hired in 2024.”

PLEASE SHARE AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE youtu.be/XVmbVldXIQw The Met Police & Judge Jeremy Johnson are Trying to Rig the Filton 6 Retrial The Jury Aren’t Being Allowed to Know the Context of the Defendant’s Actions, Nor Their Right to Acquit on the basis of Conscience Nor that they will be Sentenced, if found Guilty of Criminal Damage, as Terrorists azvsas.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-po…

Did you know that Dr Hussam Abu Afiya, the heroic doctor who stayed until the last moment in his bombed out hospital saving lives, and who the Israeli army abducted illegally, is STILL kept in chains? Now, Israel seeks to extend his illegal detention. Speak out!

This may seem arcane, but it’s a deeply concerning & spectacularly cynical move from this government to sideline NICE - the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence - whose role is vitally important in protecting NHS patients from the lobbying clout of the Pharma industry lobby. Until now - and since 1999 - NICE has made independent, evidence-based decisions about which medicines constitute value for money for the NHS to buy. Largely free from political manipulation, it’s renewed internationally as a model of how to protect patients against excessive drug company prices. It enables the NHS to strike hard bargains with Big Pharma. But @wesstreeting has just used a statutory instrument in parliament (that no-one has voted on) to award himself power to dictate what the NHS pays for drugs, overriding NICE’s vital role in insulating the NHS from pharmaceutical price gouging. Why would he do something so self-evidently bad for patients? Because, it seems, this is a price the government is willing to pay to do a deal with Trump on US-UK drug pricing. What an outrageous power grab for a man who claims to care about patients. Already hospitals up and down the country are cutting staff and closing services under pressure to make cost savings. But every pound spent on, essentially, increasing profits for US Pharma is money that *doesn’t* get spent on nurses, doctors and treatments we know are good value for money. As the editor of the BMJ, @KamranAbbasi, wrote this week, this: "will end up harming vulnerable people to boost the profits of already obscenely profitable drug companies." Starmer has shamelessly caved in to the White House. Even the former Tory Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, now a Lord, has joined forces with Labour and Lib Dem MPs opposing Streeting’s power grab. Truly an appalling move from a government that claims they’re rebuilding the NHS while, in this case, blatantly undermining our abilities to provide cost-effective care.

🚨Israel assassinated Imad Miqdad yesterday in a drone strike, targeting his solar-powered phone charging station in Gaza yesterday. Miqdad had been providing civilians with a rare means of communication amid ongoing electricity cuts. The strike killed him and destroyed the facility, further limiting access to basic services and connectivity for residents.

More than 200,000 people in the United Kingdom have signed petitions urging the government to cut ties with Palantir Technologies over concerns about its handling of sensitive data. The campaign targets major contracts, including a £330 million deal with the National Health Service, with critics warning about privacy risks and the company’s links to US immigration enforcement and the Israeli military. The backlash has grown as the Metropolitan Police considers expanding its use of Palantir’s AI tools. Advocacy group 38 Degrees says the response reflects widespread public concern, while the company insists its technology improves public services and rejects the criticism.

Professor Clara Mattei just gave a masterclass on the coercion of capitalism: “Capitalism has been imposed upon us by a tiny elite since the beginning. Liberal democracy is really only a superficial facade. When people rise up against the capitalist system liberals and fascists are best friends to implement austerity.” She wasn’t done teaching! She also points out capitalism itself isn’t natural and that it took control of the world using violence by excluding people from the land. Prior to capitalism forcing itself onto the world indigenous cultures used a much different method to organize their societies: “If you look at all the indigenous cultures it was based on circular, horizontal organization through councils. It was about caring for the commons and caring for nature rather than extracting.” Professor Mattei just gave the world a much needed wake up call with this interview and outlined the need for humanity to look to its indigenous roots for how to chart a sustainable path forward!

"Labour's more about people than just money and profits", said a man on Argyle St when I asked why he would be voting @nzlabourparty. I agree. Electing an out-of-touch National CEO has been a financial disaster for the average New Zealander. Real cutbacks to health and infrastructure worsening mass unemployment, homelessness and record small business collapses. While ensuring literally Billions of taxpayer $$ redirected to help a small group of property investors, tobacco, oil, and foreign-owned corporations. $219 million still ( ! ) set aside to help tobacco companies sell more heated tobacco products to our people: priorities are priorities for this current govt! Waipu though, was delicious. Great people, good conversations. We doornocked #waipu and then had iced coffees at @littleredcoffeewaipu. Perfect weather, perfect day. I'm back down visiting with the Bream Bay Trust on Wed, then NorthTec this week, Tikipunga High, the Police union, as well. "I will back our NZ workers as hard as National backs foreign tobacco companies." -Dr Gary Please join our red Dr Gary T-shirt wearing supporters on a big visit to Kensington Sports Grounds Saturday 9a-11, and a fun LabourParty Party at The Judge on Wednesday at 5:30pm. Recharge, relax, and make new friends. Wear red. T-shirts available to buy at cost. Getting on our email list: see the ink in the first comment below. We are taking back Northland: for our people. I am representing the regular person who is struggling. I'm in it for my patients, and my community, all the people of Whangārei, and not the tobacco companies, the gas+oil corporations, and the electricity and banking multinationals that have absolutely thrived under Mr Luxon's "CEO" led govt. Feel free to join us! We are rising.

“ I know my kaupapa for this election. Constitutional protection of Te Tiriti, through Matike Mai.” 🎯 Te Tiriti not only protects Māori but also protects us all and the planet #Together Election 2026 Survival Guide: Voting for Te Tiriti e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-an…

@foundersam @flibberygiblet National-ACT-NZFirst’s first 100 days follow the same #authoritarian playbook as Trump, Bolsanaro, Melei & other Far-Right dictators working for #Zionist ChristoFascist #AtlasNetwork of Billionaires & toxic corporations pushing War, oil, tobacco, mining, guns & climate-denial

#together The world over in solidarity

@NZNationalParty National looked at our pay equity and eyed it up for the rich. National is making sure we earn less than what our labour is worth.

Not a single mention of invasive facial recognition technology in this report when we all know it’s being used. Why not mention it? Because it’s incredibly unpopular.

👁️Hammersmith and Fulham Council is going full Orwell It's wiring up AI surveillance capabilities into 500+ CCTV cameras Buried in documents we've uncovered are proposals to monitor a wide range of behaviour Here's what you should know⤵️

"I've received rape threats against my daughter, my husband has been fired, and my apartment has been seized, because I said that Israel is committing genocide." ❁ Francesca Albanese.

“The goal of legislative consistency doesn’t require TeTiriti o Waitangi obligations to be watered down to a bare minimum.” — Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-an…

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When @winstonpeters tries to sell you on the idea that voting for him will help change the government. He IS the government!