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What fresh hell is this? The Spectator goes all in on Palantir, calling its critics victims of "Palantir Derangement Syndrome". What the magazine won't say:
🔺Spectator is owned by Paul Marshall, co-founder of Marshall Wace - which holds some 2.3 million shares worth $380m in... Palantir.
🔺Michael Gibson, who wrote this pro-Palantir screed for The Spectator, co-ran the Thiel Fellowship with Palantir owner Peter Thiel from 2010 to 2015. Thiel then backed Gibson's 1517 fund.
🔺Palantir's primary owner, Peter Thiel, was a happy business partner with convicted serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein - Epstein's other business partner, former Israeli PM Ehud Barak, described Thiel and Epstein as "co-owners" of their venture fund. Thiel's investment w/Epstein contributed to the single largest asset in Epstein's estate.
🔺We don't need a democracy hating giant surveillance-defence contractor owned by Epstein's business partner and alleged fund "co-owner" to infiltrate the NHS. Estonia, Denmark, and Israel manage complex national electronic health records without reliance on private defence platforms.
🔺There is a war on for your mind being waged by investors and media owners who have benefited directly from Peter Thiel and Palantir.
Maybe Britain doesn't need friends and business partners of child rapists, nor people who would profit from them, running our health and security systems? Who is really deranged here? 👀
A late spring outbreak of righteous indignation is affecting the United Kingdom. It's yet another variant of Palantir Derangement Syndrome.
Virologists tracked this smug neurosis as it jumped across the Atlantic from the American left to British Labour. Symptoms include selective blindness, performative anguish, a hilarious inability to grasp the facts and Tourette's-level outbursts of repetitive left-wing clichés.
Earlier this month, a committee dominated by British Labour MPs who are infected by PDS called for Palantir to be stripped of its £330 million deal to help British hospitals save the lives of patients.
The House of Commons science, innovation and technology committee accused the American tech giant of having a "clear mismatch" with British values. It seems the ghost of fascism can be found in simple efficiency gains.
✍️ Michael Gibson
Article | spectator.com/article/the-ri…
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“The whole Russian Empire collapsed in a couple of months in 1989 and if we don’t think the UK can go the same way, we’re in cloud cuckoo land.” James Hawes, author of The Shortest History of Ireland, on @BylineTimesPod @jameshawes2 @BylineTimes bylinesupplement.com/p/is-th…
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EXCLUSIVE: Reform's Matt Goodwin told the architect of Project 2025: "It's not enough to win an election - you also need to completely rewire the system." Here's what we found on Reform's plans to import Trumpian autocracy to Britain /1 🧵bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/r…
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Newsletter: The DeepSeek situation is a moment that should fill Silicon Valley with shame, a monument to the lack of vision and herd mentality of the American tech industry. OpenAI and Anthropic have no moat, no innovation, and I believe no future.
wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/
With another men's 100m final done at the #OlympicGames , I thought I'd share my family's connection to a little-known record for the event. This is Reggie Walker, my great-grandma's cousin. He's the youngest athlete (at 19 years and 128 days) to win the title. London 1908
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Some are angry about the "anti-Christian depiction of the last supper" at the Olympic Opening ceremony. (@elonmusk and @realDonaldTrump among others)
A Dutch art historian explains it's not the last supper but a Dutch painting of the Olympic gods.
And I explain what I loved.
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Starmer’s ‘Supermajority’: A Product of Conservative Propaganda and Client Journalism
How a Conservative campaign line became the weaponised mantra of the Daily Mail – and infected the entire general election campaign
@BylineTimes #GTTO #Election2024
bylinetimes.com/2024/07/03/s…
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When you watched Johnson lie every fucking day, you had no power.
When you found out the Tories gave billions to their mates, you had no power.
When your mortgage increased because of that useless twat Truss, you had no power.
Tomorrow you have power.
Use it
#GeneralElection
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So to summarise that's:
- One man forced out of Parliament for repeatedly lying to MPs
- Two men who helped to force him out, while declaring him unfit to be PM
- Another man restored to office after being at the centre of the biggest lobbying scandal of the past ten years
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'Slow-walk' protests banned at 1,200 locations - 400 demonstrators are named in court orders.
Where would we be without protest/dissent?
No right to vote
No women's rights
No trade unions, worker rights
No equality laws
No NHS
No environmental laws
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjee…
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Newsletter: The Shareholder Supremacy has eaten the world, turning the tech industry into the playground of do-nothing management dictators that see human beings as assets and the customer as subordinate to growth - all inspired by GE’s Jack Welch.
wheresyoured.at/tss/
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Says the newspaper that has spent the past 14 years actively encouraging and gleefully celebrating the wrecking of almost everything that matters in this country.
The Mail and The Mail on Sunday are without conscience or shame.
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Major parties are promising cuts in public spending.
None ask questions about corporate welfare spending.
Billions handed in subsidies, tax reliefs with little in return. Shareholders/Execs, companies enriched.
Why the silence about corporate welfare?
leftfootforward.org/2024/06/…
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REVEALED: the campaigners who dreamed up the contents of Liz Truss’s mini-budget have given the Conservative Party £35m
(Location: 55 Tufton St. Collaboration with Democracy for Sale. Narration by @CarolVorders)