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
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
Today, the UK govt released emails in which Peter Mandelson appeared to take credit for his role in the UK-US tech partnership, announced in 2025. At the time, Mandelson reportedly still held a stake in lobbying firm Global Counsel - which counted Palantir and OpenAI among its clients in 2024.
🔎 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
PALANTIR. MANDELSON. STARMER. Follow the money.
February 2025: Keir Starmer and Peter Mandelson visit Palantir's Washington HQ. Tour of facilities. Meeting with CEO Alex Karp.
What Starmer didn't tell you: Palantir was a client of Mandelson's lobbying firm, Global Counsel.
The Information Commissioner is currently investigating the govt's refusal to release documents about Palantir's NHS contract and Peter Mandelson's role in facilitating it. Mandelson, now UK Ambassador to the US, recently named in the Epstein files, ran Global Counsel, which had Palantir as a client
This is bullshit. Mandelson was Global Counsel’s inside man. Global counsel repped Palantir, who eventually won the NHS contract.
#NoToPalantir - political leadership urgently needed.
"Tang attracted controversy when she agreed to be
“guest of honour” at dinner hosted by Global Counsel, founded by Lord Peter Mandelson, which counted Palantir as a client"
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And “free at the point of use” is a weasel phrase.
All politicians know they mean “free at the point of use UNLESS IT ISN’T”
And the”isn’t” gets bigger all the time: dentistry, optician services, prescriptions, audiology…
Direction if travel is to basic rump NHS for poor with rest forced private
Let's get the private sector hands off our NHS
This is why it's difficult know what a government means when it says we are increasing the NHS budget by x%. Some of the money that should go to patients is being bled off a the profits of the myriad private companies that both the Conservatives and Labour have encouraged to parasitise our NHS.
Much of this bleeding dry of our NHS is down to the Blair appointed Lord Carter of Coles, who went on to become a consultant for the Tories. He oversaw the privatisation of pathology services and is now chairman of HSL. His recommendations are now been rolled out throughout our NHS.
How much of the money that should go into NHS services in your area but instead goes to private shareholders? @chpithinktank.bsky.social have crunched the numbers (and it’s a lot) www.nhsprofitmap.org.uk
i am so tired of living under Donald Trump & co. every single day is a new set of horrors, abuses, and misinformation. not to be all "back to brunch" about it, but it would be nice to go a single day without thinking about the president & his fascist co-conspirators trying to end the world.
I can't wait to read this. The loss of Paul Auster is still deeply sad.
One of my favourite authors for years, after picking up a copy of the New York Trilogy at random as a teen, but all of his work from the early poetry, to classics like The Book of Illusions and Invisible, were just flawless.
Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.
At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.
Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”
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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.
Very convincing 🙃
Looks as if accounts originate in…..wait for it…
Sri Lanka that should definitely be careful what it wishes for given the islands exposure to sea level rises.
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It’s almost as if there’s a coordinated campaign by the fossil fuel industry on both sides of the world.
But renewables are coming and are going to march all over them..
Meanwhile tax their profits hard as a punishment for their bad actions
Infographic of Jack Rankin, MP for Windsor, accompanied by a quote from a letter he wrote to Emma Hardy, Under-Secretary of State for Water and Flooding, in April 2026. "Water privatisation has clearly been a failure. The competitive pressures that drive efficiency and innovation...simply do not exist. Instead, we have poorly regulated monopolies operating through corporatist collusion."
Jack Rankin, the Conservative MP for Windsor, has added his voice to the roster of MPs urging the government and Ofwat to reject the latest Thames Water rescue bid.
Thames Water wants to set its own rules for pollution into the next decade. Has your MP said NO to this?
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Reform UK pledges review of asylum claims for the last 5 years if it wins the next general election.
400,000, including those legally settled could be deported.
Will people be plucked in streets, sent to concentration camps?
Farage inflicted Brexit, now importing Trump racism and terror.
Dorothy is 93 and could be forced out of her care home if her Reform-led council moves forward with cruel proposals to close it. Please help share her story – it’s easy and only takes 90 seconds:
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Satirical website The Onion plans to turn rightwing commentator Alex Jones’s misinformation site InfoWars into a parody of itself under a leasing agreement provisionally approved by a Texas court.
Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...
Governor Tim Walz — "We are sick of this. A weak, reckless, Idiotic president just threw us into a war nobody asked for. No threat existed. No objectives were set. No exit plan exists. This is pure fascism." #cdnpoli
A mass shooting that took the lives of eight children should stop this country in its tracks. Instead, the Shreveport tragedy disappeared from the headlines in a day. We cannot allow this level of violence to fade into background noise. Ending America’s gun‑violence epidemic is a moral oblligation.
Letter: A harsher view of economic ‘resilience’ From Natalie Bennett, Green Peer, House of Lords, London SW1, UK Letter: A harsher view of economic ‘resilience’ on x (opens in a new window) Letter: A harsher view of economic ‘resilience’ on facebook (opens in a new window) Letter: A harsher view of economic ‘resilience’ on linkedin (opens in a new window) Share Save Pro Features Configuration current progress 38% Published20 HOURS AGO 9 Print this page Martin Wolf says “the mix of chaotic politics and a resilient economy can’t last” (Opinion, April 15). No one could question the former label, but what about the latter? Can you really call a global economy resilient in which 363mn people are at risk of acute hunger, according to the World Food Programme, while 826mn people live on less than $3 a day, according to the World Bank, where economic activities have driven us over seven of the nine planetary boundaries as identified by the Stockholm Resilience Centre? Or in the UK, where housing is unaffordable in most of the country, young graduates are loaded with debt with few job prospects and 1.9mn reported in work-related ill health, while our intelligence agencies report lack of food security is an acute threat? We need economic systems that meet people’s needs, that leave no one behind, that don’t trash our planet and ensure we are providing a liveable future for coming generations. That’s what resilience looks like. And it is not just Donald Trump’s fault that we are nowhere near that. Natalie Bennett Green Peer, House of Lords, London SW1, UK
My letter in today's Financial Times. What does a truly resilient economy look like?
Surely it has to be preserving - or enhancing - Earth's systems on which we are entirely dependent, and ensuring a secure life for people?
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