Palantir software is now the basis of the Government's fraud reporting service. So it now handles sensitive financial data for millions of UK citizens. Plus NHS data. Plus military analytics. Plus policing.
And, of course, it's quite explicitly far right in its politics.
What could ever go wrong?
Judge-only trials in England & Wales won't wipe out crown court backlog of 79,600.
Less than 2% time saved.
Loss of jury trials unacceptable to many. Delays in hearing unacceptable
Problems created by years of austerity, low investment.
Need more judges, courts must sit 7 days a week.
1. The tariffs are paid by US consumers
2. Greenland isn't for sale
3. Go f**k yourself
Outrageous.
Ministers should be listening to scientists, frontline communities and those working towards a green transition – not hosting the interests of oil giants in their own offices.
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Average FTSE 100 CEO took less than 3 days to earn what a typical UK worker will in all of 2026.
Just 2 hours for the highest paid CEO.
Median FTSE 100 CEO pay is £4.4m, 113 times the median earner.
No relationship between exec pay and performance.
UK real average worker wage stuck at 2008 level
The UK has the 7th highest daily living cost in the world, but only the 17th highest median wage.
1. 🇸🇬 Singapore $107.30
2. 🇮🇸 Iceland $106.50
3. 🇨🇭 Switzerland $106.30
4. 🇮🇪 Ireland $90.07
5. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg $89.27
6. 🇺🇸 United States $83.47
7. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom $79.67
Private equity owned Claire's and The Original Factory Shop to enter administration.
Years of under-investment and cash extraction take toll.
Private equity continues to devour high street.
"What is your assessment of the legality or not of what happened over the weekend in Venezuela?"
Scott Lucas, a professor of international politics: "Its illegal... this was an egregious violation of international law"
I have a revolutionary idea:
Work out how many doctors and nurses we need to look after everyone properly.
Train that many.
Pay them well.
Let them get on with their jobs.
Maximum monthly State Pension, guess which is unaffordable?
Luxembourg £5,426
Norway £1,839
Switzerland £1,657
Denmark £1,486
Sweden £1,373
Belgium £1,338
Netherlands £1,322
France £1,254
Spain £1,238
UK £997
Shortage of NHS stroke specialists in England resulting in death or disability.
Between 10,000 and 20,000 patients died or sustained a serious disability because of treatment delays.
Lives destroyed by fiscal rules, austerity, appeasement of the rich and forcing people to go private.
Bosses of most valuable UK-listed companies will have to work less than three days of 2026 to earn more than a typical worker does in a year, new research shows
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It's amazing Maduro who hasn't committed a single crime in the USA is going to be appearing in US Court today, charged with nonsense.
While Donald Trump who is guilty of Genocide and not only being in but also covering up the Epstein Files won't be in court.
How ridiculous.
We can’t go on like this.
In just two days, the average FTSE 100 CEO has made a median workers full time annual salary.
The right calls this “wealth creation”.
It’s wealth extraction.
Time to tax the rich.
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I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.
Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.
Reform UK now have multiple viable paths to power in Britain.
They could reach No.10 without ever facing proper scrutiny – another critical failure of the mainstream press.
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Head of disability charity rejects MBE and slams Labour’s treatment of disabled people www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
As the rest of the world leaves the U.S. behind.
Foreign doctors/nurses shunning the NHS because anti-migrant rhetoric, rising racism have created “a hostile environment”.
Successive UK govts have failed to provide local supply, raided other countries.
Without immigration UK economy/services will decline. Still no honest debate.
Labour living in a fool’s paradise if it thinks it has plenty of time to turn Britain around.
Fascism awaits. Tariff wars, UK is outside the biggest trading block (EU). Poverty/Inequality rising.
Finance industry deregulated, mega crash incubating.
Must abandon neoliberalism. Need redistribution.
What happened starting in 1980?
Mass Privatisation.
So instead of your wages being decided by what your Government could afford and what you earned, you are paid as little as possible to maximise profit.
Capitalism claims to empower each of us to be economic agents, rewarded for our activities, and vulnerable to competition.
If that was true, billionaires would not exist.
They do, because capitalism has morphed into monipolism. Without redistributive tax, it'll only get worse.
And he knows it.
Excellent letter by Natalie, with some important points. Why is the UK becoming the world’s fifth largest economy heralded as an achievement, when poverty is increasing?
Indeed, who is the economy for?
James Dyson has said he may not be able to pass his business down to his children because of Rachel Reeves's inheritance tax changes..See more elctap) Sir James Dyson: Rachel Reeves has put my family business at risk
Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."
Just a reminder: you are NOT unusual, weird, or unlovable if you have:
- no one to see on Christmas Day,
- no presents, or
- no contactable relatives.
Very few people live the idealised version on TV. Those of us who live differently—whether by choice or trauma—matter as much.
