Later today protesters will demand ‘No Palantir in our NHS’    While they protest, someone, somewhere will get an operation scheduled earlier, a cancer diagnosis quicker, a loved one home from hospital sooner - thanks to the software that those protesters would switch off.   Here is what you won’t hear. Trusts using the software have recorded: • 117,000 additional operations • 14.3 per cent reduction in discharge delays for long stay patients • 5.6 per cent improvement in the number of people receiving a cancer diagnosis within 28 days     As a more articulate person once said: ‘certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.’

Google Earth updated the images of Gaza. It's devastating.

Palantir just hired a Labour peer to fight the campaign against its NHS contract. You can push back against this moral bankruptcy. Three letters, one click, on our action hub. Tom Watson has been on Palantir's payroll since November 2024. He kept voting in the House of Lords for sixteen months while the company paid him, 240 votes in all. Thirty of those votes were on the Crime and Policing Bill, cast while Palantir was chasing a £50 million Met Police contract. Five were on the data bill that governs how the NHS shares patient records. On 18 September Palantir made him senior vice president. His register of interests now reads one line: exempt from registration. He keeps the title, the peerage and the Labour whip, and the Lords say no rule was broken. His job is to stop you fighting back against Palantir's handling of your data. Palantir's £330 million NHS contract has a break clause in February, two Commons committees say cancel it, and Watson says his role is to correct "false information". He is one of four peers who have advised Palantir. The company has hired 32 senior officials out of the MoD, the NHS and Whitehall, then won a £240 million contract with no competition. His appointment is evidence that the thousands of emails sent to NHS trusts, councillors and MPs are amounting to real pressure. One click sends a letter to your MP, a request to the Lords Conduct Committee to close the loophole, and evidence to the Commons standards inquiry: newscord.org/action/palantir…

Nick Candy and Holly Valance. Britain’s most expensive house. A £265m sale. Usual consequence: £32m of stamp duty. But five small flats were included in the sale. By an extraordinary happy accident, that cut the tax by £18.5m. The curious sale of Nick Candy’s mansion A 🧵:

This will be totally illegal under a Reform government. Anyone caught aiding or abetting illegal migration to Britain will be jailed.