A detail everyone is ignoring or forgetting.
Peter Mandelson masterminded Keir Starmer's reshuffle days before the scandal broke.
That is, while he was the US Ambassador.
This seems like quite an important detail!
🔎 From the archive: 'Peter Mandelson's Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions' — by Iain Overton and Max Colbert
🔁 Relevant again: Worth re-reading in light of new revelations that Mandelson had not divested his Global Counsel shares
The extract of the article reads: "A senior NHS official privately urged colleagues to add more patient data into a Palantir-built platform at the same time as he was being paid to advise the US technology company. Matthew Swindells has been joint chair of four major hospital trusts in north-west London since April 2022 and has also since then acted as an adviser to Palantir through the now-defunct lobbying firm Global Counsel, which was co-founded by Lord Peter Mandelson."
It's just cartoon villainy now
Peter Mandelson used his lobbying firm Global Counsel to get Palantir contracts with the U.K government and it became more lucrative after he was made the Ambassador to the US by Keir Starmer. #Mandelson #Epstein #UK #AI
"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere."
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Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Thames Water infrastructure average age is 79 yrs. 40% of assets are 100+ yrs old.
Water industry average is 56 years.
At current rate, it will take 700+ yrs to renew assets.
Since 1989 industry neglected investment, £88bn+ dividends paid, customers fleeced.
Privatisation isn't the answer.
Reform UK’s Richard Tice allegedly failed to pay £100k corporation tax.
He ran 4 shell companies that reportedly didn't pay tax on profits from 2020 to 2022, when his firm donated £1.1m to party. Also used a trust in Jersey.
Claims tax non-payment was due to an error ... but six years elapsed.
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures ... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.
These points stand out:
BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.
The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm
So we’re taking legal action.
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This was actually raised in the Commons by Rachel Gilmour on 16 September 2025
“a source from MI6 has reportedly claimed that they failed to clear Mandelson”
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Another great debunking by Emma and another example of GB News being absolutely terrible…
Richard Stupid Tice makes a good point - the government should learn from Reform UK and use the same vetting system as we do. We have an exemplary record of only passing a few hundred racists, sex pests and violent criminals.
Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.
So forgive me if I smell a rat.
Number crunching: Iran war
From the new Private Eye, out now.
I find every "Number 10 source: Sir Kieth Starmer is furious" report very funny because it's like Starmer doesn't know that he's in charge. Who are you angry at? You're the one who's fucked it!
Rachel Reeves warns other budgets may be cut to lift defence spending.
Hitting the old, sick, disabled, public services doesn't produce a resilient society. How many will die?
Govt created £895bn QE to rescue banks, why not the same to rebuild society?
2010-2025: HMRC didn't collect £500bn tax.
Last season, Newcastle dropped just seven points from winning positions in the Premier League, the fewest in the division.
This season, they have dropped 25 points from winning positions, at least five more than any other Premier League team.
#NUFC
When Labour next tell you there is no money left and that's why they can't help people to heat their homes, show them this.
£64bn is the cost of UK capitulation to pharmaceutical companies and Trump.
Secret deal commits the NHS to pay higher price for new and existing drugs
No debate in parliament.
Govt can tax the rich, cut other services, let people die, start manufacturing drugs and become self-reliant.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Viktor Orbán has defected to the Reform Party.
Funny, isn't it, how some red lines matter and some don't.
I guess you get paid for the important ones.
Oil companies rake in €81.4m extra daily profits in the EU as fuel prices soar.
Corporations profit from war, global tensions and pollution for benefit of the super-rich
Must levy windfall taxes on corporations, wealth taxes on the super-rich.
Iran rejects "nonsense" UK claim about 'defensive' role in US/Israeli-led war
Iran deputy foreign minister Saeed Khatibzadeh called out the UK, saying US bombers flown from British bases had killed civilians
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE - the MOD told the Canary a British drone wasn't carrying out 'operations' over Lebanon - despite all evidence pointing to the contrary
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💪🏼 Big response needed at #CPFC on Sunday.
🤕 Bad news on Bruno & Schär!
😅 Miley & Botman fit again.
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Solid from Zack Polanski
Rejects the idea of pitting pensioners against students
Says the real divide is between the 99% and the 1%
And that we should tax the rich more
