threetimes

[threetimes @threethymes]

11 July Coronavirus tally.
Vietnam: population 97 million: 370 confirmed cases and zero deaths.
UK: population 67 million: 288,133 confirmed cases and 44,650 deaths
How did we get it so wrong? #CovidInquiryNow

[threetimes @threethymes]

So wrong.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Detailed Text Breakdown of Palantir’s UK Contracts
1. NHS (National Health Service)
Contracts: 5
Total Value: £414 million
Breakdown:
COVID-19 Datastore (2020): Initial contract for £1 to build a datastore for real-time health data access during the pandemic. This led to additional contracts worth over £60 million without competitive tender, raising concerns about procurement transparency.
Federated Data Platform (FDP) (2023): £330 million contract (initially reported as £480 million) over five years (extendable to seven) to develop the FDP, in partnership with Accenture, PwC, NECS, and Carnall Farrar. The FDP aims to connect disparate NHS data systems to improve patient care.
Transition Contract (2023): £24 million to transition existing NHS projects (including COVID-19 work) to the FDP supplier.
Critical Data:
Purpose: Data integration for healthcare efficiency, initially focused on COVID-19 response, now expanded to broader NHS operations.
Controversies: Privacy concerns due to Palantir’s ties to U.S. intelligence (e.g., CIA, NSA) and its support for controversial policies (e.g., ICE deportations, Israeli military operations since October 2023). The British Medical Association and Amnesty International criticized the FDP contract for potential data security risks. Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board deferred adopting the FDP in May 2025, citing concerns and preference for their existing platform.
Transparency Issues: Many contracts awarded without competitive tender, especially during the pandemic, prompting criticism from MPs and the Good Law Project.

2. Police
Contracts: 1 confirmed
Total Value: £0.81875 million
Breakdown:
Leicestershire Police (EMSOU) (2024): £818,750 contract for a Police Intelligence and Investigation Platform, focused on counter-terrorism and organized crime.
Transparency Issue: openDemocracy (Feb 2025) reported that three-quarters of UK police forces (approximately 32 out of 43 territorial forces) refused to disclose whether they have contracts with Palantir, often citing national security exemptions. Leicestershire Police initially disclosed this contract but later removed the details, fueling transparency concerns.

Critical Data:
Purpose: Enhance intelligence and investigation capabilities, particularly for serious crimes.
Controversies: Palantir’s history with predictive policing in the U.S. (e.g., criticized for bias and privacy violations) raises concerns about its use in the UK. The Good Law Project highlighted the lack of public scrutiny due to non-disclosure by most police forces.
Additional Context: The Metropolitan Police trialled Palantir’s predictive policing software in 2016 but has not confirmed any ongoing contracts. Gwent Police explicitly stated no contracts with Palantir as of 2021.

3. Ministry of Defence (MoD)
Contracts: 3
Total Value: £113 million
Breakdown:
2019 Contract: £28 million for a search visualization and analysis system.
2022 Contract: £10 million to support the Foundry platform, aimed at automating workflows and reducing data-processing time.
Enterprise Agreement (2022): £75 million, three-year deal with Defence Digital to enhance data-driven decision-making across military operations, building on over a decade of collaboration.

Critical Data:
Purpose: Improve military operations through data analytics, focusing on automation and decision-making efficiency.
Controversies: Palantir’s global ties, including support for the Israeli military, have raised ethical concerns among UK activists. However, specific criticisms of the MoD contracts are less documented compared to NHS deals.
Transparency: While these contracts were publicly disclosed, the MoD’s use of Palantir across multiple classifications (as noted in the Enterprise Agreement) limits public insight into the full scope of their collaboration.

4. Other Government
Contracts: 2
Total Value: £31.5 million
Breakdown:
Cabinet Office (Brexit Preparations) (2019-2020): £27 million contract following a 2019 trial, facilitated by former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers. The software supported data analysis for Brexit preparations, likely focusing on logistics and border management.
DLUHC (Homes for Ukraine Scheme) (2022): £4.5 million contract, following a six-month free trial, to support the Homes for Ukraine scheme with data management.

Critical Data:
Purpose:
Cabinet Office: Manage Brexit transition data, aiding in economic and logistical planning.
DLUHC: Facilitate the Homes for Ukraine scheme by managing data for refugee support.
Controversies:
Cabinet Office: The contract was awarded without competitive tender, criticized for lack of transparency. The involvement of Sir John Sawers raised questions about potential conflicts of interest.
DLUHC: Also awarded without competitive tender, the National Audit Office flagged this as contrary to procurement principles, highlighting risks to public accountability.
Transparency Issues: Both contracts reflect a pattern of non-competitive awards, a recurring critique of Palantir’s UK engagements.

Total Contracts: 11 confirmed
Total Value: £559.31875 million

Potential Undisclosed Contracts: The lack of disclosure from three-quarters of UK police forces suggests there may be additional, unreported contracts, but no specific details are available.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

The media is bending over backwards to humanise the man who mowed down 79 people at Liverpool’s parade.

His company’s Twitter account follows Nigel Farage, Elon Musk and Andrew Tate. That tells you everything you need to know.

[Antwn Owen-Hicks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @Pibydd]

Man of the people? The millionaire, right-wing, private schooled, city banker, who claims an EU parliament pension and pays his taxes in Belgium?
You've been had by this grifter. Wake up and smell the Rubles!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Absolutely everybody has had their eyes opened to the blatant racial bias in our Media by the response to the Liverpool attack, who was a dangerous terrorist until he was found to be white.

Then he become a Company Director, happily married and living in a cul-de-sac with 3 kids

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

The Liberal Democrats have 72 MPs. They don't even get 5% of the media coverage Nigel Farage and his band of clueless merrymen receive.
How is this right?
#BBCBreakfast

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

⚠️Labour’s betrayal exposed!
Starmer’s BlackRock partnership with the $11.5T empire ushers in a “government-by-BlackRock,” Freeports, SEZs, AI Growth Zones, and green spaces being bought up on the cheap as 'nature's assets' for Blackrock's financial portfolio.
No one voted for this.
#LabourBetrayal #CorporateCapture

[Bluedog @HereLiesBlueDog]

Why is the media ignoring this

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

England has the only privatised Water in Europe, the most water pollution, and the most expensive water.

The UK has the only fully privatised energy, and the most expensive.

England has privatised rail, the slowest, least reliable and of course the most expensive in Europe.

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

Reform UK have only got 5 MPs yet a speech by Nigel Farage is broadcast live by numerous TV channels this morning as though he were the Prime Minister.

This is not normal nor is it ethical.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Hitler’s won; he’s changed us Jews into a vicious genocidal nationalist nation pursuing & killing women and children, says Miriam Margolyes

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Rachel Reeves’ Fiscal Flip-Flop: From £20 Billion Black Hole to £113 Billion Corporate Handout in a Privatised UK Dystopia

I will say it again, BlackRock is a “corrupt shadow banking outfit,” they are routinely criticised for investments in fossil fuels, the arms industry, the People’s Liberation Army, and human rights violations in China. Yet Rachel Reeves hands them the keys to the UK’s future, funnelling public money into their coffers while slashing welfare.
BlackRock is the ringleader of a corporate takeover of Britain, embedding itself in the UK’s public sector through Reeves’ £113 billion infrastructure plan.

@Keir_Starmer X post boasts of partnering with BlackRock to “deliver growth,” but their own statement reveals the truth: they’re chasing “the fastest-growing segments of the private markets,” aiming to “connect our clients with bigger and better opportunities” for “shareholders”—not the public.

Larry Fink is a king to this changed Labour Party; all of this is fundamentally, morally, and ethically wrong.
This is what corporate sovereignty looks like; a patchwork of deregulated enclaves where multinationals, not elected officials, rule.

My latest article on Substack is free to read, it dives into Rachel Reeves fiscal illiteracy, exposing it as a betrayal of the social contract. Trickle down economics fits hand in glove with the duopoly's 86 free zones rollout. No one voted for this.
https://t.co/Q3GmvMR7AL

[Rania @umyaznemo]

Exactly!

[Paul Birch @Wakethefitup]

Most cities in the UK now have food banks & homeless people & boarded up windows & pawn shops & loads of litter...this is the effect of 14yrs of Austerity, this is Tory Britain, it's STILL their mess & it stinks...so don't blame the EU or migrants, blame the real culprits.

[threetimes @threethymes]

and he still has his well paid job. Shame on the guardian.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Hindsight being a wonderful thing...........

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Its hell in Iran and many other parts of Asia
Europe too is heating up and parts of Texas last week was hotter than Death Valley
UK worst drought on record
Iceland up to 24 °C recently
Our #climate is rapidly collapsing
Whilst all media talks about is Trump Trump

[100 Climate Messages @climatemessages]

"LAST YEAR, WE HAD THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE HOTTEST MONTH OF THE HOTTEST YEAR IN THE HOTTEST DECADE." - António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The U.S. government and Boeing just reached a deal allowing the company to avoid any prosecution over 737 Max crashes. Under capitalism corporations can literally kill people and suffer zero consequences because the state exists to serve corporations, not the people.

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

‘The tropics lost a record-shattering 6.7 million hectares of primary rainforest in 2024, an area nearly the size of Panama…. More than any other year in at least the last two decades.’

We must be mad. https://t.co/SlGaovdVf0

[threetimes @threethymes]

I hate AI. Checked out YouTube shorts and nearly all of them are AI and awful. It is a new form of pollution.