The US government’s assertive use of import tariffs means the health implications of trade policy can no longer be sidelined. Trade policy needs greater attention from health researchers and public health experts, say @drmcnamara.bsky.social and Benjamin Hawkins www.bmj.com/content/392/...

First quick look at the new UK Trade Strategy: zero mention of public health....

Was anyone else waiting for the UK trade strategy to drop at 9:15 only to be met with a website error? Is this... the first non-tariff barrier? 👀 @davidheniguk.bsky.social @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social

The tariff represents a double insult to consumers, assaulting both our taste buds and our pocketbooks www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o...

Opinion | ‘Tasteless, Hideous and Repulsive’: Trump Wants You to Eat Inferior Tomatoes

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Once again, the global economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Breaking News: The global economy is projected to slow sharply this year as President Trump’s trade policy disrupts international commerce, the World Bank said.

Trump got what he wanted: everyone to stop gawping at his embarrassing fallout w/ Elon Musk..in the meantime, the world has learned something useful abt who wins in a standoff btwn 2 giant egos, 1 of whom has all the $ & the other of whom has all the exec. power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump has unleashed something terrifying in the US – that even he may be powerless to control | Gaby Hinsliff

The protests in LA are what everyone feared, and a warning to countries that flirt with populism, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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"Whether we’re doctors, scientists, or ordinary citizens, we need to be clear sighted—and to engage in whatever forms of resistance to authoritarianism we can find the courage to muster." @johnlauner.bsky.social on the dissolution of our global political landscape www.bmj.com/content/389/...

In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

‘Stress crisis’ in UK as 5m struggle with financial, health and housing insecurity www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #sdoh

‘Stress crisis’ in UK as 5m struggle with financial, health and housing insecurity

Exclusive: Levels of ‘multi-stress’ at highest since 2008 crash, study says, with people feeling profoundly powerless

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Trump evading the question over whether UK will now accept hormone treated beef

Courtney McNamara@drmcnamara.bsky.social · last yr.

"we're very big, we have a lot of beef"

"we're very big, we have a lot of beef"

This deal is completely being used to justify Trump’s mad tariff operation.

So Sky news reports that the UK US trade deal announced today consists of "no physical UK-US trade document" that will be signed. Trade deal is not a protected term. It really could be anything somehow related to trade. But I did not expect it to be invisible.

Reporters are gathered and waiting for the 10 am WH trade announcement- which is clearly running late. I was told about an hour ago that details in the agreement were still changing, and no information was final until the actual event. So that could explain the hiccup here.

Alas, no. The press is reporting it as a "trade deal" & a "trade agreement" in the headlines, so everyone will believe that it is a legal deal/agreement. Total failure of journalism. @financialtimes.com @nytimes.com @wsj.com @cnn.com:

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · last yr.

Something I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one.

you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"

China's response: - additional 34% tariffs on all US imports - add 11 US companies to list of “unreliable entities” - limits on exports of seven rare earth elements - two trade investigations into US exports of medical imaging equipment - block some US chicken imports and sorghum imports

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y ago

Breaking News: China said it would impose a 34% tariff on U.S. imports, matching President Trump’s tariff on Chinese goods.

The potential health impacts of a UK-US free trade agreement goes way beyond chlorinated chicken: www.bmj.com/content/374/.... #sdoh #cdoh

Important point

Sophy Ridge@sophyridge.bsky.social · 2y ago

We've been talking an awful lot about how the Trump tariffs will hit the big players: the UK, China, Canada, France, Germany etc But it's time to talk about the ones who DON'T have loud voices. Because some of the poorest countries in the world are going to be crippled by what happened last night

This is the direct result of the inane fake "formula" they used to calculate tariff rates. It penalizes poor, export-dependent states who cannot afford large volumes of US exports and who have been forced by colonial and postcolonial economic structures into a dependence on primary commodity exports

Kat Stafford@katstafford.bsky.social · 2y ago

Madagascar - one of the poorest nations in the world with gross domestic product (GDP) per head of just over $500 - meanwhile faces a 47% tariff on the modest $733 million of exports of vanilla, metals and apparel that it did with the U.S. last year.

On the wider determinants of health, people “are yearning for more substantial reform” www.croakey.org/on-the-wider... #SDOH #ElectionBudget2025 #AusPol With ACOSS, Climate Council, TasCOSS & others

On the wider determinants of health, people “are yearning for more substantial reform”

Introduction by Croakey: Last year, we published an article investigating whether "the cost of living crisis" that is so often

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What is politics? It involves much more than governments and elections Here is an introductory post to inform two talks: (1) on evidence for WHO Collaborating Centre for Health in All Policies and Social Determinants of Health, Tampere University, (2) on prevention for Public Health Association…

Here’s a link to the 2016 Hassett/Sullivan paper which also shows that 45% of recessions happen in the first year after an election, linked in part to policy uncertainty. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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EU wields ‘sledgehammer’ against Trump tariffs

Brussels strikes back against the U.S. president’s 25 percent levies on steel and aluminum.

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I'm adding civil service reform to industrial strategy, immigration and regulation as subjects where aggressive government briefing bears no resemblance to what is likely to happen. As a driver of populism this gap between rhetoric and reality is perfect. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Plan to cut thousands of civil service jobs in radical government shake-up

Exclusive: Proposals also include cutting thousands of civil service jobs and restructuring NHS England

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📣 New Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health edited by @tobabryant.bsky.social 📣 Proud to contribute a chapter on why most SDH frameworks fail to challenge individualized notions of health— and how a global political economy approach overcomes this challenge. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health

‘This volume provides a much needed critical, contemporary and global analysis of the social determinants of health in an increasingly unequal world. With chapters by leading experts from across the w...

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What Trump - and many politicians - don't understand about modern trade is that we've never had so many products and services available, and that's come from technology creating global markets. He's imposing tariffs as if we're in the 1950s. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The US Has Never Imported So Much Food

The US, known for being a global agriculture powerhouse, has never imported so much food.

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Trudeau: "Every country is very aware that if the American government is willing to do this to their own closest ally, neighbor, and friend, everyone is vulnerable to a trade war."