Health
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GM Watch Daily Digest 21 August 2026
Friday, 21 August 2026 — GM Watch UK: Hollywood actor seeks help from vicar for series A Shropshire vicar played a key role in a new two-part BBC documentary featuring Welsh Hollywood actor Michael Sheen’s investigation into toxic waste dumps. The Rev Paul Cawthorne is also a long time environmental campaigner. He began looking into… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 20 August 2026
Thursday, 20 August 2026 — GMWatch Former Fauci adviser pleads guilty to conspiracy to conceal Covid-19 records A former adviser to infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has pleaded guilty to conspiring to evade public records laws and conceal government documents related to grant research funding and the Covid-19 pandemic. David Morens, who had worked under… Continue reading
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Review 604: Glyphosate, Fire and Science
While our recent GMWatch Reviews have focused on major developments on the GM front, a huge amount has also been happening involving glyphosate – the herbicide GM crops have helped to make the most used in the world, being responsible for more than half of all global glyphosate use and 85-95% of the use in… Continue reading
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Palantir’s NHS data platform: the evidence keeps unravelling
When NHS England wanted to show that Palantir’s £330m software was working, it picked two examples where it claimed to have made a big difference. Continue reading
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The previous Government’s consultation on more data brokers – envisaging a future that is already past
The new Government has inherited an open consultation on allowing data brokers to be ever more creepy, to buy and sell more data with less regulation. It’s coated in the language of helping individuals, but the focus is giving data brokers more permission to sell data about you, and giving you less say in the… Continue reading
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Africa resists Washington’s ‘digital colonialism’ health deals
Under Washington’s “America First Global Health Strategy,” seven American aid workers entered a U.S. isolation facility in central Kenya in mid-July, defying weeks of local protests and Kenyan High Court orders to halt the work. Continue reading
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Let’s get glyphosate BANNED!
For decades, Bayer Monsanto insisted that glyphosate was safe. Millions of liters were sprayed across Europe’s farms, parks, school grounds, and gardens every year. Continue reading
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NHS 2028 – The Trajectory of Current Decisions (from medConfidential)
The Health Bill/Act of 2026 is expected to come into force for 2027, creating an all-powerful Department of Health in England which will have powers of Direction and delivery unmatched since the creation of the NHS. Delivery will be steered by DH/E AIs. Continue reading
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Reminder – please donate to bring film about the future of food to the world
The makers of the remarkable film In Symbiosis, which documents what’s wrong with the food system (including GMOs and pesticides) and points the way to a better future, need to raise £12000 to enable the film to be seen by the public in cinemas worldwide. They’re half way towards their goal – please help them… Continue reading
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Our Letter to Andy Burnham – Save Our NHS!
This weekend marked the 78th anniversary of the founding of the NHS. That’s nearly eight decades of universal healthcare, free at the point of use, for tens of millions of people. Continue reading
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The Palantir figures NHS England didn’t want you to see
For months, Palantir has justified its £330m contract with NHS England for the new Federated Data Platform by relying on one central claim – that Palantir software is helping hospitals get more done for patients. Continue reading
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🚨 3000 NHS patients a day…
NHS England has just published its first ever official figures on corridor care, revealing that around 3000 patients every single day are being subjected to this crisis. These figures confirm what we already knew – corridor care is a national emergency. Continue reading
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It’s not going well for Palantir…
It’s been a pretty bad few weeks for US spy tech company Palantir… 👀 A Parliamentary Committee of MPs has launched a major new report, warning that UK contracts with Palantir put citizens’ data at risk. They’ve also urged the government to trigger the break clause in Palantir’s NHS contract. Continue reading
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MPs call for end to Palantir in our NHS
An influential committee of MPs has called on the government to urgently kick US spy tech firm Palantir out of our NHS by triggering a break clause in their contract. Continue reading
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QUIZ: How much do YOU know about Palantir?
The government is trying to keep us in the dark about Palantir’s £330m NHS contract – how much do you really know about the spy-tech firm handling your health records? Continue reading
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Let’s end NHS corridor care once and for all
Last night the SOS NHS coalition held an important online webinar to discuss the causes and impacts of corridor care in the NHS, and the solutions needed to end the crisis. If you missed the call, don’t worry – you can watch a recording of it on our YouTube here. Continue reading
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How much do you know about Palantir?
Over 75,000 of us have emailed our local hospitals to say no to Palantir. But how much do you really know about the spy-tech firm handling your health records? Take our quick two minute quiz to uncover the facts – here’s the first question to get you started. Continue reading
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NHS patients have a message for the new Health Secretary
In the wake of the local election results we have seen a number of senior ministers resigning from the Labour government, and that included the Health Secretary Wes Streeting. Just a few weeks ago we sat in his office, urging him to do more to protect patients and the NHS and presenting him with a… Continue reading
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NHS: Wes Streeting’s final Bill
On Wednesday, it was named the NHS Modernisation Bill; a day later it was published as the Health Bill, with this funny line in Hansard: “Secretary Wes Streeting, supported by the Prime Minister”… oh. Clause 1 is wonderful: “NHS England is abolished”, but they didn’t stop there. Continue reading
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Urgent – can you do this today?
The government announced new legislation in yesterday’s King’s Speech to create a single patient record (SPR) for each NHS patient, and reporting from the Guardian suggests the new law will force GPs and hospitals to share our health data for these records.[1] Continue reading
The New Dark Age 