Mandelson's Links, Palantir Contracts: Allegations of Corrupt Procurement Over NHS and Ministry of Defence Deals

Is now the right time to remind people that it was #Mandelson who recommended #Palantir to #Starmer and #Streeting and those contracts on defence and NHS systems were made in a very non-standard executive heavy way…basically no procurement process. Just a couple of highly sensitive data projects handed over to a company run by misogynistic fascists. https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

Scary times. I am baffled governments and enterprises just wholesale give all their data to Palantir. "NHS Staff Told ‘Stop Criticising Palantir or Lose Your Job’" https://novaramedia.com/2026/04/14/nhs-staff-told-stop-criticising-palantir-or-lose-your-job/ #ai #palantir #nhs

European money pours into Palantir: Over 100 asset managers and banks boost their investments in the controversial tech company. Investors across the continent have already put more than $27 billion into this leader in military-grade AI that has been accused of numerous human rights violations. mediafaro.org/article/20260411-european-money-pours-into-palantir-over-100-asset-managers-and-banks-boost-their-investments-in-the-controversial-tech-company?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward #Palantir #Tech #HumanRights #AI #Investing #AssetManagement #Banking #Politics #Business #Europe #OECD #EU #Democracy #PeterThiel

"Pressure is rising on the government to terminate its dealings with #Palantir. The reason this is important is that Palantir was still relatively little known until #Mandelson-gate, and the #Epstein scandal more broadly." #UKPol #Labour https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/a-backlash-against-palantir-has-finally-begun-in-the-uk-but-is-it-already-too-late.html

This was the Good Law Project’s executive director, Jo Maugham in April 2025: “We don’t understand, at all, why Keir #Starmer and Wes #Streeting are banging the drum for this dangerous spytech firm” “But Peter #Mandelson has a clear conflict of interest – and the failure to keep a minute of the meeting he arranged for the PM shows a kind of contempt for the public interest.” #Palantir https://goodlawproject.org/mandelsons-embassy-fixed-starmers-visit-to-spytech-firm/

‘On 27/02/25, #mandelson – then UK Ambassador to the US – accompanied Keir #Starmer on a visit to the Washington headquarters of #Palantir. No official record has been published: no minutes, no transcript. At the time, Palantir was a client of Global Counsel, the lobbying firm Mandelson founded. Since then, Palantir has signed a £240 million deal with the Ministry of Defence, on top of its £480 million contract to manage sensitive NHS patient’ https://www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/mandelson-palantir/#:~:text=Since%20then%2C%20Palantir%20has%20signed%20a%20£240,unfairly%20benefit%20the%20secretive%20US%20tech%20company.