Allyson Pollock

The leaked white paper for Health and Care in England reveals more privatisation at scale, market deregulation and huge scope for corruption, loss of universality and social solidarity blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/02/11… @JonAshworth @Dr_PhilippaW @JeaneF1MSP @MattHancock

The government is handing lucrative contracts to Palantir, a notorious US corporation providing AI and surveillance technology used as an essential part of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. TAKE ACTION: Write to Starmer to demand all contracts with Palantir are cancelled: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/cancelpalantir…

This research by Queen Mary University of London should be a wake up call for the UK government and judicial institutions: 286 political prisoners in Britain, held in relation to their activism for Palestinian rights or against fossil fuel. Prison sentences for acts of direct action or civil disobedience (which were once rare) are now being imposed with increasing length and frequency. In Great Britain. theguardian.com/law/2026/may/2…

BREAKING: ELSC & PILC have filed a complaint with the Bar Standards Board naming senior barristers and UKLFI patrons over alleged misuse of professional status: • Lord David Pannick KC • Lord Anthony Grabiner KC • Stephen Hockman KC 🔗 elsc.support/elsc-pilc-file…

She urged supporters to attend the June 12 sentencing for Head, Corner, Kamio and Rajwani, who were remanded into custody after being convicted. 6/6

BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me! As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest". Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far. Together we are One.

#WhenTheWorldSleeps Palestine stands as the moral compass of our time. Exposing Apartheid and its crimes, their root causes and implications, is necessary to ensure the world "wake up" and work together to overcome it. Together we can and we will.

Beware @Sadlers_Wells the most expensive seats in the house I. The first four rows have the worst lines of sight. Totally ruined the Crystal Pite ballet which was not visible. Director of operations Mark Smedley please address this and take complaints seriously .

One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants. Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict. Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences. Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670? It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide. Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-01-1…

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@drcmday Delightful irony given expulsion from BMA and council for defending you and for whistleblowing about the lies being spread about you within the BMA. Members Votes don’t count only their fees !!!

BREAKING: Anger in Croydon Labour as two longstanding popular black Councillors with impeccable records are deselected and Keir Starmer’s niece is imposed by London Party HQ on their safe Labour seat (via @TheTimes) thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Met Police Commander Mark Rowley has made dishonest & reckless comments in suggesting any of the Palestine marches have sought to pass near synagogues. As PSC Deputy Director Ryvka Barnard explains, “None of our marches or proposed march routes has ever targeted a synagogue or even directly passed one along its route, and the Met Police knows that.”

Thank you @Dr_PhilippaW

Labour’s NHS privatisation plans for Scotland, copying Labour England.👇 From @AllysonPollock research.

The graphs from @AllysonPollock’s original paper demonstrate that hip & knee operations have increased in #Scotland and #England. But outsourcing in England has led to almost direct REPLACEMENT of #NHS capacity with expansion of #PrivateHealthcare!

The ‘antisemitic terrorism’ narrative around the Golders Green incident on Wednesday has now collapsed. The alleged assailant was mentally unwell with previous convictions for stabbing, dating back years, and he had left psychiatric care in recent days. One of his three victims (yes three, not two!) was a Muslim. While suffering an apparent mental health crisis, two Met officers kicked his head in IDF-style and then the Met justified it like a Netanyahu press conference. We’re supposed to believe this man was an ‘antisemitic terrorist’ in the pay of Iran, motivated to attack Jews because of pro-Palestine protests and chants. This is a total sham and deeply insidious. The mainstream media, politicians, and the Metropolitan Police are colluding with Zionists to exploit this attack to further erode freedom of expression and assembly, and to expand Jewish militias in London. Welcome to the complete Zionisation of British politics!

A man just released from a psychiatric hospital, previously referred to Prevent, attacks Jewish people in London. The Guardian immediately carries an article blaming pro-Palestinian protest marches, despite a complete lack of evidence of any connection. theguardian.com/uk-news/commen…

This image gives the lie to the 'antisemitic hate marches' narrative, which is why you will never see it on any UK media. #ItWasAScam

A 400-page legal petition filed by the Britain Owes Palestine campaign is calling on the UK government to apologise, release classified historical archives, and consider reparations for its role in helping create Israel in Palestine, as well as its forced eviction of Palestinians from their lands — and its removal of their right to self-govern — between 1917 and 1948

Excellent response from @JohnWRees to the completely spurious claims that marches against genocide lead to anti-semitism…