The UK government awarded Palantir a £240 million contract, with the Ministry of Defence. Palantir has pledged to invest £1.5 billion in the UK, whilst the UK will look to identify “opportunities” worth £750 million over the next 5 years. Palantir has close-ties to the US military, and political establishment, including the Trump administration and has been implicated in human rights abuses from ICE agents separating families, or being involved in the deportation or deaths of citizens such as Re

The UK is preparing for war... British military veterans up to age 65 are being told to prepare for mobilisation. The Ministry of Defence wants to raise the recall age from 55 to 65 as part of new “war preparation” powers. I’m ex-army. Ten years served. And I’m telling you plainly: a 65-year-old is no use on a modern battlefield... | Neil McCoy-Ward