Oct 18, 2026, 9:06 PMretooted Steve Woods
"The most sensitive of those contracts – running the NHS’s federated data platform – is up for renewal and the mood music out of No 10 is that Andy Burnham is considering UK alternatives. That is also the context in which Palantir has hired a high profile politician to fight its corner: Tom Watson, the former deputy leader of the Labour party, and now Lord Watson of Wyre Forest. The man who previously took on Rupert Murdoch and spoke up about “surveillance capitalism” during the Cambridge Analytica scandal is now providing cover for a man who believes freedom and democracy are “incompatible”."