Allyson Pollock

Academic, public health doctor, & leading authority on PFI and the implications of market mechanisms and privatisation of public services.

[Allyson Pollock @AllysonPollock]

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 https://t.co/sVzKTzHIxc
@JonAshworth @Dr_PhilippaW @JeaneF1MSP @MattHancock

[Matt Hancock @MattHancock]

Shortly launching the landmark White Paper on Health and Care in the Commons shortly - to help our health and care system build back better from the pandemic

[Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates]

Health workers are clear that Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS.

Palantir's technology has been used by Israel to accelerate its genocide in Gaza. (1/2)

https://t.co/saVHih0YcD

[Dr Philippa Whitford @Dr_PhilippaW]

On behalf of the Scottish Palestinian Health Partnership, https://t.co/8g5TWiIN1H I am hosting a free public conference at Glasgow University on 13/6/26 on tackling the burden of trauma induced disability in #Gaza.
Please use the link below to register.

https://t.co/DAC2FZq6AN

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Pro-Palestine prisoner Umer Khalid, a 22-year-old with muscular dystrophy, has been dragging himself across his prison cell floor because he has been denied a wheelchair.

He hasn't had access to a shower for over 20 weeks.

He has been waiting for a neurology appointment for over 12 weeks while experiencing chest pain and breathlessness.

This is happening in a British prison right now.

I've written to David Lammy to demand answers:

[Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention @LemkinInstitute]

Words matter: "Ethnic cleansing" is a term first used by perpetrators to downplay genocidal acts, and it’s not recognized as a crime in international law. Using this language can obscure atrocities that often meet the threshold for genocide or crimes against humanity. Instead, let’s call these acts by their rightful names—forced displacement, murder, rape—and confront the gravity of these crimes. Take a step toward genocide prevention: Refrain from using the term "ethnic cleansing." 🧵

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Operation Recomply

Told through the eyes of their family members, the film follows their fight for justice while the state escalates its crackdown on the pro-Palestine movement.

📍 Premieres this Sunday, May 31st (followed by wider screenings)

Book now: https://t.co/XmECt56WqO

[Dr Philippa Whitford @Dr_PhilippaW]

We will hear from 4 #Gazan colleagues at next #ScottishPalestinian Health Partnership conference, on trauma-induced disability in #Gaza, & discuss potential for a future training partnership.

13/6/26, at Glasgow Uni
12.30 - 4.30.
Booking link below.

https://t.co/DAC2FZq6AN

[Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates]

🚨BREAKING NEWS: London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, blocks £50million Met police deal with Palantir

This is a massive win for our campaigning - over 1,000 PSC supporters in London emailed the Mayor to demand he intervene in the lead up to this decision.

Now, we demand Keir Starmer cancels all contracts with Palantir - take action now!

https://t.co/A3RORaeabm

[Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates]

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: https://t.co/A3RORaeabm

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

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.

https://t.co/zirb1lfTGb

[European Legal Support Center (ELSC) @elsclegal]

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

🔗 https://t.co/1AAZEpB2Pj

[Clare Hinchcliffe (Rogers) @Subversivite]

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

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

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.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

#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.

[Allyson Pollock @AllysonPollock]

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 .

[Peter Anderson @Peterj464]

The world’s biggest festival for hip hop theatre, Breakin’ Convention, returns to @Sadlers_Wells Theatre in Angel this May Bank holiday (Friday 1–Monday 4 May 2026). Across the weekend Breakin’ Convention presents the full range of hip hop dance styles. https://t.co/TvJZ6Bif9o

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

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: https://t.co/RyDHG3Iz81

[Colin Fox @colinfoxssp]

@The_SSP_ @unisonscot @unisonhealth @unisonedin @GMBScotOrg @AllysonPollock @EISUnion @EdinburghEIS @TUIC_ORG_UK

[Allyson Pollock @AllysonPollock]

@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 !!!

[Dr Chris Day @drcmday]

Very pleased to have been elected to BMA Council.

On my list of things to do;

Making sure this doesn't happen again to another doctor standing up for patient safety or NHS services.

[Joe Rich @joerichlaw]

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) https://t.co/jMpv5Q1x5x

[Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates]

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.”

[Allyson Pollock @AllysonPollock]

Thank you @Dr_PhilippaW

[Dr Philippa Whitford @Dr_PhilippaW]

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!