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[Tom @Tom141102]

Admin carrying on as normal like the band still playing as the Titanic sunk

[Sheffield Wednesday @swfc]

Under the lights at Hillsborough this evening v @SunderlandAFC 🔵⚪️

#swfc | #SHWSUN

[Tom @Tom141102]

Vital thread:

[The White Bear @ScotsWhiteBear]

All of this stuff has been done by the Westminster establishment since the ascent of Thatcherism in 1979, and things have got so insane these days, that any politician who proposes reversing any of this damage is portrayed as some kind of dangerously radical left-wing fanatic!

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

.@louismosley heads @PalantirTech 's UK and European operations. Louis seems to like doing audits, I like doing audits too. Here's one for Palantir:

✅ Palantir entered the NHS via a £1 contract in 2020, no competition. Expanded to £60m in COVID contracts, all without tender, before winning the main deal.

✅ 13 of 41 trusts using Palantir's FDP scheduling tool recorded fewer operations after adopting it. NHS England quietly admitted it cannot prove causation. Chelsea and Westminster, the trust behind 84% of the outpatient waiting list claim, has seen its actual waiting list rise by 20,000 over 3 years (The Londoner). NHS staff report the platform runs approximately 10 times slower than the system it replaced (@PeterKGeoghegan, Democracy for Sale). @Foxglovelegal obtained the data NHS England chose not to publish.

✅ NHS England's own data (updated 12 June 2026): 111,589 additional theatre procedures, cumulative from early adopters in 2022 through end of March 2026, across 39 trusts. The NHS delivers around 18.4 million planned treatments per year. At its most generous annual reading, Palantir's unproven claim amounts to roughly 0.3% of NHS annual activity. A third of one percent, with no control group, no causal proof, and 30% of adopting trusts recording fewer operations.

✅ The larger "waiting list removal" figures (218,389 outpatient, 993,477 RTT validation) are mostly administrative cleaning: patients who moved, died, went private, changed their mind about treatment, or were duplicates. NHS England's own methodology page confirms this. A Band 3 administrative assistant costs £27,000 per year. The £47.1m annual contract would fund over 1,700 of them. List validation does not require a funding a $ 360bn surveillance company.

✅ The contract ceiling is £330m over 7 years; £47.1m per year. That fully funds 100 consultant surgeons, 100 registrars and 500 theatre and ward nurses every year. 700 staff. Every year. For 7 years. With money left over. A scheduling tool optimises existing capacity. Staff add new capacity. The NHS has over 106,000 vacancies.

✅ 100 consultants and 100 registrars working standard theatre schedules produce an estimated 60,000 to 90,000 procedures per year. That is more than Palantir's most generous annualised claim. They cost less than the Palantir contract. And they come with 500 nurses who staff wards, run clinics, manage discharges and enable theatre lists.

✅ Those 700 staff return an estimated £164m to the state over 7 years in tax, pensions and VAT. Every penny circulates in UK communities. 100% stays. Zero leaves.

✅ From Palantir's Companies House filing (year ending 31 December 2024): £247m turnover, 749 employees. Cash wages: £91m. Share-based compensation: £62m, vesting in US-listed equity on the NYSE. Corporate tax: approximately £2m. Palantir converts roughly a quarter of its UK revenue into US shareholder value through stock compensation alone.

✅ Palantir claims "£5 of benefits for every £1 spent". NHS England has quietly admitted it cannot prove causation. Peer-reviewed research across 25 EU countries found health spending returns £4.3 for every £1, the highest of any category of government spending (Reeves et al., Globalization and Health). Defence and surveillance spending had a negative multiplier.

✅ @carolecadwalla and @thenerve_news found Palantir has recruited at least 32 senior UK government officials since 2012, including the MoD's AI chief who co-wrote the military AI strategy and met Palantir 9 times in official capacity, NHS England's head of AI, a former MI6 chief, and the joint chair of Chelsea and Westminster. At least 69 government hires in total. Transparency International UK: "acute risk" of corruption.

✅ Mosley told the Observer that if a future government won a "clear public mandate" to use NHS data for immigration enforcement, Palantir would execute it. "Our belief in the importance of abiding by the democratic decision is going to take us into delivering some very controversial things". Thiel, co-founder and chairman of the same company: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible".

✅ Built ICE's deportation targeting infrastructure since 2014. @AmnestyUK's parent organisation found "a high risk that Palantir is contributing to serious human rights violations of migrants and asylum-seekers". 2019 Mississippi raids: 680 arrested, children separated from parents. 52 people have died in ICE custody since January 2025; the highest toll in over two decades.

✅ Maven Smart System ran the targeting for the 2026 US campaign against Iran. US Tomahawk missile struck an elementary school in Minab on 28 February. Approximately 168 killed, mostly children aged 7 to 12. Pentagon investigation concluded the US was responsible.

✅ Supplies AI targeting systems to the Israeli military during what the ICJ has ruled is a plausible genocide. The UN special rapporteur named Palantir as an enabler of "unlawful use of force" in the occupied territories. Amnesty International has described Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide and cited Palantir's IDF work as a contributing factor. Karp, 1 July: "the most publicly supportive CEO of Israel". "Israel is on the side of good" he added. Israel is literally killing children en masse.

✅ Thiel: women's suffrage and welfare had "rendered the notion of 'capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron". Said at the Oxford Union the NHS "makes people ill". Runs "Dialog", a secret invitation-only network of billionaires, Trump officials, senators and NATO commanders, exposed by data leak in June.

✅ Karp told investors in February 2025 that Palantir exists "to scare our enemies and, on occasion, kill them".

✅ Under £820,000 in UK corporate tax in 2025 (@openDemocracy investigation); less than it paid in Korea, Japan, France or Germany. According to ITEP, the US parent paid zero federal income tax on $1.5bn domestic income in 2025.

✅ Cross-party Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, 3 June 2026 (chair @ChiOnwurah): Palantir's public-sector presence is "an unacceptable point of weakness". Urged the government to trigger the February 2027 break clause.

✅ Remains deeply vile and evil.

Sources:

Palantir Technologies UK, Ltd, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024, Companies House (company no. 07042994)
https://t.co/AGfiS8uXwO

NHS England, "NHS Federated Data Platform uptake and benefits", updated 12 June 2026
https://t.co/Rl3GOUwbvm

R. Sylvester, "Inside Palantir's growing grip on UK public services", The Observer, 22 March 2026
https://t.co/K0Yh5b2dSc

C. Young, C. Cadwalladr and I. Tucker, "The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials", The Nerve, April 2026
https://t.co/8gfZFiP6nn

Foxglove, "UK Government and Palantir must correct public record after NHS admits published data does not back up FDP benefit claims", 26 June 2026
https://t.co/u8xU4N9H7K

The Londoner, "Palantir cleared 183,000 patients from one hospital's waiting list. Or did it?", 2 July 2026
https://t.co/czGjuKMy3H

P. Geoghegan, "Revealed: Palantir's NHS tech is ten times slower than current system", Democracy for Sale, 23 May 2026
https://t.co/RTRCM4r71q

A. Sethi and J. Yan, "Exclusive: How Palantir harvested millions in UK tax breaks", openDemocracy, 26 June 2026
https://t.co/TVFT5N3p6I

Institute for Government, Performance Tracker 2025: NHS Hospitals
https://t.co/HHWD8tENpe

Amnesty International USA, "Failing to Do Right: The Urgent Need for Palantir to Respect Human Rights", September 2020
https://t.co/ybI9qOP3V0

Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch, "Dying in Detention", June 2026
https://t.co/oOx8K5gG4A

Amnesty International, "USA/Iran: Those responsible for deadly and unlawful US strike on school must be held accountable", March 2026
https://t.co/yR5sOpghUd

Anadolu Agency, "Palantir CEO says he is 'most publicly supportive' of Israel", 2 July 2026
https://t.co/FVuYZSESgP

P. Thiel, "The Education of a Libertarian", Cato Unbound, 13 April 2009
https://t.co/ORO10RCcfL

M. Roeloffs, "What We Know About Billionaire Peter Thiel's Secret 'Dialog' Society", Forbes, 18 June 2026
https://t.co/TpCqBu0KQs

NPR, "How Palantir, the secretive tech company, is rising in the Trump era", 1 May 2025
https://t.co/DowQ289xLJ

House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, "MPs warn that Palantir's increasing presence in the UK public sector is an 'unacceptable point of weakness'", 3 June 2026
https://t.co/tqvysGbJvm

A. Reeves et al., "Does investment in the health sector promote or inhibit economic growth?", Globalization and Health, vol. 9, 2013
https://t.co/1bzqFmrz2E

Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Corporate Tax Avoidance Report, 2026

NHS Employers, Agenda for Change Pay Scales 2025/26
https://t.co/L4W8ordEVY

https://t.co/VmvSWnQvny, Rates and Thresholds for Employers 2025 to 2026
https://t.co/YT4LzPRXv5

[Sheffield Wednesday Supporters' Trust @SWFCTrust]

SWFC Trust is disappointed to learn that our opening home fixture of the season against Bradford City, originally scheduled for 3pm on Saturday 22nd August, has been moved to 8pm on Thursday 20th August.

What should have been a fantastic and exciting opportunity for supporters to come together and celebrate the opening home game of the season, and the beginning of a new era under the club's new ownership, has instead become a fixture that many fans will now struggle to attend.

The change will undoubtedly impact families with young children, supporters with work commitments, and many travelling fans, including those making the journey from Bradford. A Saturday afternoon fixture would have provided a far more accessible occasion for supporters of both clubs.

We urge @SkySports and other broadcasters to give greater consideration to the needs of match-going supporters when scheduling fixtures. Football simply wouldn't exist without its fans, and they deserve to be at the heart of these decisions.

We share the frustration of many supporters who were looking forward to celebrating the start of the new season together and hope that future scheduling decisions better reflect the interests of those who regularly attend matches.

#SWFC

[Tom @Tom141102]

This has irritated me more than it probably should have.

[Sheffield Wednesday @swfc]

📆 Some early changes to our 2026-27 schedule;

Live broadcast fixtures:

Bradford (h) - Thurs 20 Aug | 8pm
Peterborough (a) - Sat 5 Sept | 12:30pm

Fixture change:

Blackpool (h) - Sun 1 Nov | 2:00pm

[Tom @Tom141102]

https://t.co/iCmaz6RHa7

(How old are you exactly?)

[Tom ✝️ @CrossAndCaptial]

I'm just old enough to remember a respected profession where local police served a community and understood their role to serve justice and prevent crime.

There is no pride In being a police anymore.

The role of a modern police is to serve politics. A frivolous job for activists and low testosterone men.

In the civil war to come, I believe it will be the police serving the government whilst the army will side with the people

[Tom @Tom141102]

50000 likes on a 2 year old video that right wing folk didn't give a shit about at the time because it was an Irish traveller and his son getting nicked.

[Mario ZNA @MarioBojic]

🚨🇬🇧BREAKING: UK Police just arrested a crying 5-year-old boy while taking away his father.

Starmer's police dragged the terrified child into a car, then pepper-sprayed and the father and the man filming everything.

What the hell is happening in Britain?

[Tom @Tom141102]

Something grimly ironic about the right discovering police brutality in the past month and then immediately deciding it's anti-white racism.

When in fact it's been going on since before they cared to look. 🤷‍♂️

[Alex Miller @AlexJPMiller]

Truly, truly remarkable.

#SWFC🦉

[Tom @Tom141102]

But where legally tied to their employer by a year long bond 🤷‍♂️

[Bovril-Gesellschaft @BovrilG]

Coal miners in the North-East in the nineteenth century were almost certainly the highest paid labourers in human history up to that point

[Tom @Tom141102]

Has anyone posting this screenshot actually watched the goal?

[Ruined Football Shirts @ruinedshirts]

Ok then

[Tom @Tom141102]

@adam7485 100% mate

[Tom @Tom141102]

It's so obviously a foul ffs

[Dale Johnson @DaleJohnsonBBC]

Biggest VAR call ever? Four chaotic minutes that may define the season for Arsenal and West Ham.

If it takes that long, can it really be clear and obvious? That is the wrong way to look at it.

With @philmcnulty.
👇
https://t.co/69qlGjJkJe

[Tom @Tom141102]

Not yet.

[Tom @Tom141102]

Has a club ever finished on negative points before?

[Kris Wigfield @kr62209]

🌴☀️🦉

[Sheffield Wednesday @swfc]

Big day tomorrow... 🥂

[Alex Miller @AlexJPMiller]

🚨Understand the takeover of Sheffield Wednesday by US consortium Arise is done. Paperwork finalised this afternoon.

Official announcements expected on what will be a memorable day at Hillsborough tomorrow.

Story and details👇

https://t.co/gKeKaLRymq

#SWFC🦉

[Tom @Tom141102]

How long before the bubble bursts?

[Kieran Maguire @KieranMaguire]

Championship total revenues ⬇️ by 2% in 2024/25, but wages ⬆️by 2%, so overall wages 97% of revenue, which doesn't leave much to turn the floodlights on.
Since 2010 Championship revenue ⬆️ by 142%, but wages ⬆️by 182%, which highlights again that football does not have a revenue problem, it has a cost control culture problem.
As a consequence Championship clubs have lost just over £7 billion since 2010 chasing the Premier League dream. Player sales have helped a bit, but Clubs have mainly had to rely on owner subsidies and benevolence.

[Tom @Tom141102]

@GoalShort My disagreement was just the comparisons to national league teams, cup games which I think underestimate the challenges

[Tom @Tom141102]

A National League teams squad would genuinely be better balanced, have more depth and be more stable/ consistent though.

Again, not saying Pederson is the man to lead #swfc next season, but people still, genuinely underestimate how difficult it has been for him.

[OneGoalShort @GoalShort]

@t_peters32 Whilst I agree with you I can’t accept in a very poor division we can’t win more than one game. I’d suggest a national league team would have fared better.

[Tom @Tom141102]

@GoalShort I think it is acceptable, but tbh I'd accepted it at the start of the season lol. I'd agree re Pederson in that sense but can't see any changes while we're in admin and don't have sporting director etc.