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"Very significant privacy concerns." Say no to Palantir. goodlaw.social/3fd139

Good work by @helenadollimore for Hastings kids

I'm disappointed that the CEO of @TravelodgeUK did not turn up to yesterday's meeting to listen to MPs concerned about women’s safety in their hotels. I hope there will be opportunities in the future to understand the steps the hotel industry are taking to address VAWG.

The geopolitical world we have has reached its limits taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/2…

Wow. On Tuesday 107 MPs met frontline sewage campaigners, including those featured in Channel 4’s 'Dirty Business', to hear directly about their experience and what needs to change. Campaigners, including prominent figures like @Feargal_Sharkey, had one clear message: it’s time for public ownership.

Ever heard of Palantir? Here's why it matters: Palantir is a US software company. It specialises in data products, used widely by governments for surveillance, intelligence and military purposes. In January 2024, Palantir signed a contract with the Israeli military to use its technology in support of “war-related missions.” Palantir has a deep relationship with US law enforcement. It supplies ICE with tools that can be used to surveil and target migrants in the US. Now, that same company is working at the heart of our NHS. Palantir has already received £330 million of our money for its contract with our NHS England. Healthworkers and patients have been ringing the alarm for years: this is not right. What’s happening in Gaza is an ongoing genocide. We shouldn’t have a company linked to human rights abuses have anything to do with our precious NHS. Learn more: amnesty.org.uk/issues/interna…

We've fined 4chan £450,000 for not having age checks in place to prevent children seeing porn on its site. The Online Safety Act is concerned with protecting people in the UK. It doesn't require platforms to restrict what people in other countries see. 🔗ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/…

@ZackPolanski Good point

Is there anything Farage can't be paid to say? theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-int…

Our privatised water industry is not just dirty, not just toxic - it’s lethal. We need to take it back into public control. Decades long failures to invest what is needed, despite constantly rising bills - prioritising dividends to foreign shareholders instead - and now this. It's criminal neglect. Putting money before people - looks like this. Privatisation looks like this. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

A couple and their 5 and 7 year old kids… Shot and killed in front of their 2 other kids by the IDF This would be on every front page and condemned by politicians far and wide if the victims has been Israelis And yet when they’re Palestinians… Utterly utterly shameful.

The Government needs to realise more regulation won’t fix our broken water system. We need to kick financial predators out & take it back into public control. But don’t just take it from me. Listen to a sewage campaigner who inspired Channel 4’s ‘Dirty Business’. @WindrushWasp

At last the dates for the High Court to decide whether people holding signs saying lift the ban should be under investigation on TERRORISM charges…

The United States is no longer a democracy and is sliding towards autocracy faster than Hungary and Turkey, according to the annual report of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University. theguardian.com/world/commenti…

How’s it going with Palantir? Last week Health Services Journal revealed that almost a third of the NHS trusts using Palantir’s platform “were not meeting minimum data security standards”: goodlaw.social/gduq

More good work repping the regular folks of Britain. Thanks @natalieben NO!! to Palantir!!

We were there! Really worth re-sharing. Thanks @labourlewis

Surely a market led solution to Thames Water would be all its customers leaving for a non profit, effective water company, and the previous boards being investigated for wrecking the region's infrastructure to extract cash? But what is coming is a too big to fail next generation scam of epic proportions underwritten by a captured and blackmailed government. Too harsh? thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/…

The days of the two-party system seem long gone.

Now this should be interesting…

NHS hospitals are being urged by a group of doctors, human rights groups and campaigners to reconsider using a major data platform built by US tech giant Palantir, whose owners include Peter Thiel, a close ally of US President Donald Trump. trib.al/EyVXKeZ