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How did a £1 emergency pandemic deal quietly turn into a £330m "Shadow Contract"? We’ve spent years investigating the elite networks and secret deals behind Palantir. 🔍

The full 4-episode podcast investigation is now live. Listen now 👇
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David Attenborough takes on PHEASANTS!

“Native to Asia, but now released into our countryside on an industrial scale, over 30 million every year… eating vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day.”

Time for the Government to regulate this out-of-control industry

#SecretGarden

Making a splash: demand for raw and ‘brewed’ milk growing in UK Farmers and delivery firms launch new options for those seeking alternative to traditionally pasteurised product

Apparently Raw milk sales not only increasing in the States but also the UK as the Guardian reports. This is unpasteurised milk with the ‘goodness’ of Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria, Campylobacter, Staphylococcus, Yersinia, & tuberculosis bacteria left in. Yet the Guardian didn’t say this…

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Green MP: Labour caricatures working-class people over greyhound racing Hannah Spencer says minister ‘continuously offends people by saying working-class people don’t care about dogs’

"Between 2018 and 2023, 2,700 greyhounds died and more than 26,500 injuries to greyhounds were recorded."

And many people and communitues suffered great harm from gambling

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Palantir: NHS pilot’s “success” is questioned as second figure at major trust is linked to the tech giant

Data used to justify the expansion of controversial software in the NHS is flawed, experts say, and the pilot trust’s innovation adviser worked directly for Palantir
https://bit.ly/4stVolW

‘Labels protect us’: Olivia Nervo wants reproductive coercion to be a standalone offence – she is not alone Grammy-winning songwriter says she was deceived into pregnancy, and that cases like hers fall between the cracks

"A 2022 poll of 1,000 women aged 18 to 44 found 50% believed they had experienced reproductive coercion of some form, including pressure around pregnancy, abortion, sex and contraception."

Record number of homes in Great Britain turn to green energy as fuel prices soar Iran war drives demand for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs, with energy bills expected to rise 18% from July

Heat pump orders up 2x in a month. Solar panel inquiries up 250%. EV leases up 85%.

The Iran crisis has made energy security feel personal.
I understand why: I have solar panels, a heat pump & EV on a flexible tariff. When gas prices spike, my bills barely move.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market

New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader

Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here

And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

My latest in the @bmj.com on needing to learn the lessons from the COVID Inquiry and implement its recommendations

www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Palantir in the NHS - my latest about questions of efficacy and ethics
bmj.com/cgi/content/...

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented.

They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed.

That energy is all around us.

And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Alarm in health service over Palantir staff being given NHS email accounts Exclusive: Sources believe AI tech company’s engineers have been granted access to directory of up to 1.5m staff

Palantir now have access to all NHS emails of staff, no permission from staff needed. This will ramp up calls to end the £330m contract with Palantir and its Foundry asap
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Five warning signs that rivers are polluted – even when they look clean River water is not expected to prove to be less polluted when results are published later this year.

River water is not expected to prove to be less polluted when results are published later this year.

Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

Almost 65,000 have emailed their local NHS trust to tell them: Say no to Palantir.

We need to keep the pressure up. Will you join them?
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-pal...

A Robin perched on a branch, its beak full of food and other material.

To reduce disease, we all need to make some urgent but simple changes to how we feed our garden birds.

See our website for the latest guidance: brnw.ch/21x1t4w

As I said…

There should always be an unbridgeable divide between defence/security/ policing & health.

It was a terrible idea to give contracts to Palantir for 🇬🇧 security etc due to its background rooted in USA🇺🇸 security/intelligence/CIA and their history of datascraping/aggregating - & bad values

Campaigners demand action to break UK’s ‘addiction’ to herbicides Use of glyphosate has risen 10-fold in 30 years, raising fears for public health

Glyphosate: “The government urgently needs to commit to phase out – and ultimately ban – glyphosate and support farmers and local councils to adopt safe and sustainable alternatives.”

Yes, yes and yes
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Expecting charity shops to recycle your unwanted clothes is creating a rubbish pile – here’s how to help to avoid that Instead of just dumping all your old clothes at a charity shop, here are some tips on what to do first.

Instead of just dumping all your old clothes at a charity shop, here are some tips on what to do first.

Wes Streeting must cancel Palantir’s FDP contract now Palantir is not the right partner for the NHS, says Green Party leader Zack Polanski

I've written in Health Service Journal today: Not another protracted Labour government U-turn.

Wes Streeting must act now and cancel the Trump/Mandelson Palantir contract.

NHS workers are voting with their feet and refusing to take part in this national disgrace.

www.hsj.co.uk/technology-a...

The growing threat of domestic wood burning stoves—and industry’s legal attempts to shut down clean air campaigns BMJ Investigation

#BMJInvestigation finds UK councils face industry legal threats for campaigns warning against wood burning stoves.

As the government considers health warnings for new stoves, investigation reveals industry pressure to shut down clean air campaigns
https://bit.ly/4cZKtfE

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

We decided to illustrate it.

What could possibly go wrong?!👇🚨🚨🚨

www.hsj.co.uk/technology-a...

Restoring measles-free status in the UK Reducing barriers to vaccination and education remain key Losing measles-free status reflects shortcomings in the UK’s approach to public health and healthcare provision.1 Gross geographic and demogr...

Pleased to have written this with my @independentsage.bsky.social friends @sheencr.bsky.social, @duncanrobertson.bsky.social, and @helensalisbury.bsky.social

We must reverse the decline in MMR and other vaccines, urgently...

bmj.com/cgi/content/...

Home or away? Why planning a sustainable holiday is about more than swapping planes for trains Addressing the issue requires getting frequent flyers to shift from planes to trains, but also asking wider questions about where we want to go and why.

Addressing the issue requires getting frequent flyers to shift from planes to trains, but also asking wider questions about where we want to go and why.

Underwater turbines are gaining government support – our research maps their global potential New research highlights hotspots where the tides are strong and the water is shallow.

theconversation.com/underwater-t...

People power works.
Together, we can force Palantir out of the NHS.

Message your local trust and tell them: Say no to Palantir
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-pal...

How U.S.A.I.D. Birth Control Meant for Africa Was Ruined

It takes SIXTEEN paragraphs for the New York Times to mention why the administration wanted to destroy nearly $10 million in contraception:

It's because they claim the stockpile of IUDs, birth control pills, and hormonal implants are “abortifacient birth control.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

🆕 Association of Directors of Public Health statement on #CommercialDeterminantsOfHealth #CDoH

"just 4 commercial products, tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed foods & fossil fuels are linked to approximately 19 million deaths worldwide each year"

@adphuk.bsky.social

www.adph.org.uk/resources/wh...

Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

New York’s public hospitals dropped Palantir. It can be done.

It's time the NHS did the same. Join us 👇
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-pal...