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British Medical Association Triggers UK Government Query Into Scrapping Palantir’s NHS Contract
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1) UK Government Inquires About Breaking Palantir Contract
UK PM Keir Starmer may be regretting his easy-pass given to yet another close-associate of Epstein, Peter Thiel and his AI military-targeting software company Palantir.
The Financial Times led reports this week that British ministers were seeking advice on triggering a break cause in their recently awarded £330 million government health contract with the NHS, after the British Medical Association (BMA) pushed ahead with serious objections to the contract having gone to Palantir.
The Times reports 30th March 2026:
“Ministers have sought advice on triggering a break clause in Palantir’s contract to provide data systems to NHS hospitals that help them to manage waiting lists, speed up discharging patients and use operating theatres more effectively. The company is two years into a seven-year £330 million contract but is facing calls from doctors to be stripped of its role in the health service.”
As originally reported here:
The Financial Times reports (£) 30th March 2026:
Palantir appear to be feeling the heat. In defence mode, they trotted out their UK head Louis Mosley - ironically, a grandson of the British Union of Fascists founder Oswald Mosley - to defend the company’s track record.
The Times reports 30th March 2026:
“Louis Mosley, executive vice-chairman of Palantir in the UK, urged ministers not to give in to ‘ideologically motivated campaigners’ who are demanding that the NHS cut its links with the company because of its work for the US defence sector and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).”
Admittedly, Mr Mosley was able to make a strong case to The Times.
The Times reports 30th March 2026:
“One key gripe is that NHS records from different parts of the system are not joined up. For example, A&E consultants cannot access a patient’s GP record to find out if they have any underlying health conditions. The federated data platform, launched in November 2023, was designed to overcome this by linking up data from different NHS IT systems, allowing medical records to flow freely between different hospitals.”
And Palantir is naturally able to point to inevitable efficiencies made.
The Times reports 30th March 2026:
“Latest figures from the NHS suggest that since the contract began the data system has delivered more than 110,000 extra operations and cut the number of patients waiting more than 28 days for a cancer diagnosis by 6.8 per cent.”
It is due to these reported efficiencies that Skynet Palantir has been spreading like wildfire in the NHS.
The Times reports 30th March 2026:
“A total of 123 hospital trusts out of 205 are using the federated data platform (FDP), according to the latest NHS data, with 80 ‘reporting benefits’ at the end of February.”
In young Mosley’s defence, and as recently as just two years ago, the Times Health Commission itself appeared to be institutionally behind him.
The Times reports 4th February 2024:
“Every NHS patient should have their health information digitally stored in one place so that any doctor treating them can access their records no matter where they are, The Times Health Commission has concluded. Eight in ten people support the creation of ‘patient passports’ that would provide a single system to keep track of medical records throughout a person’s life, and which could be accessed seamlessly across GPs, NHS hospitals, pharmacies and social care. The proposal is the first of ten key recommendations in the Times Health Commission Report, which is being published following a year-long inquiry and amid widespread backing for a data revolution in healthcare.”
As did the majority of the surveyed British public.
The Times reports 4th February 2024:
“YouGov polling for the commission shows 81 per cent of the public back its key recommendation of NHS digital health accounts, called patient passports, with only 10 per cent against. Some 89 per cent said patients should automatically be allowed to access their own medical records….Similar systems are already in place in Spain, Singapore, Estonia, Israel and Denmark, empowering patients and freeing medics from bureaucracy. Presently there are ‘between 40 and 60’ different types of electronic patient records within the NHS, the commission heard, while around ten per cent of hospitals are entirely paper-based.”
Even as the British public appeared to acknowledge the hitherto hypothetical risks.
The Times reports 4th February 2024:
“Polling shows that 56 per cent of the public agree that the convenience of being able to easily book appointments and access care outweighed any risk to the privacy or security of their medical records, compared to 22 per cent who disagreed. Meanwhile 68 per cent of the public would be happy for the NHS to allow other medical staff or clinicians to access their records.”
But fast forward two years, and today the two major political parties in Labour’s left leaning orbit, the Liberal Democrats and the populist insurgent Green party, are both pressing the Labour government to break from their contract with Palantir, as is the British Medical Association.
The Times reports 30th March 2026:
“Both the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party have jumped on these concerns, and are calling for the Palantir contract to be terminated. In January, the Greens’ leader, Zack Polanski, delivered a ‘contract termination’ letter to Palantir telling it ‘to pack its bags and get the hell out of the NHS’.”
So what changed?
Well, within these last two years the public has had time to process both how Covid mandates were used to justify a planned globalist technocratic takeover, and the use of AI military targeting software in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Palantir played a major role in both.
Read on to learn how.
2) Palantir Managed UK Covid Dashboard
The sheer power of what Palantir is able to offer, in terms of integrated AI systems that run entire business enterprises by themselves, is something that its CEO Alex Karp has openly acknowledged.
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Alex Karp: “Large language models have certain attributes, like they can give you reasoning. But you can’t import that reasoning into your enterprise. What AIP does is allow you to take the benefits of a large language model, enhance them with algorithms that we help you build, and roll it securely across your whole enterprise. And what does that mean? It means you get all the benefits of a large language model in your enterprise today. Not in five years, not something that writes poetry. We’re not offering people poetry writing in their enterprise. We’re offering things that are so powerful that in reality, I’m not sure we should even sell this to some of our clients.”
In the context of how much power we surrender to a tech company that has access to the entirety of our nation’s health records, consider the potential for abuse while keeping in mind that this same company was appointed by the UK government to drive our over-reaching Covid response.
It was the data collected and centralised by Palantir on the UK Covid dashboard that drove the government’s Covid mandates.
The Times reports 30th March 2026:
“Palantir won the contract to join up NHS data systems in 2023 and began introducing it to trusts the following year. It was also involved in the successful vaccine rollout programme…Palantir also built the Covid-19 dashboard in the UK, which provided rolling daily updates on deaths, hospital admissions and vaccines, and was essential to the pandemic response.”
And that very same Times Health Commission which two years ago recommended the centralisation of our national health data, had received evidence from none other than the government’s chief scientific advisor Sir Patrick Vallance, who had been the main face of the government’s harmful Covid mandates.
The Times reports 4th February 2024:
“Sir Patrick Vallance, chairman of The Natural History Museum, former government chief scientific adviser, who gave evidence to the commission, said: ‘Companies that invest in research and development tend to do better than those that don’t, and the same is true for healthcare systems. Investment and application of innovation from prevention through to cures is a route to sustainability.’ The reforms outlined by the commission would help build upon the success of the NHS App, which has gained 33.6 million registered users since its launch five years ago. The NHS is also launching a federated data platform, which will bring together different databases within the hospital system. However, this platform does not include GP or social care data.”
It was the above referenced ‘federated data platform’ (FDP) that PM Keir Starmer recently handed over to Palantir in a £330 million deal to build out a centralised database for our NHS.
The Times reports 25th November 2023:
“Governments dole out multimillion-pound deals to private companies all the time. But the awarding last week of a lucrative £330 million contract to build a ‘federated data platform’ — one that will collate, analyse and connect patient data across the NHS — has attracted more vitriol than most.”
One of the problems is that Palantir appears to have landed the original Covid dashboard contract, without competition, and for a mere £1.
The Times reports 25th November 2023:
“…In March 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the firm was given an emergency contract to corral data about the emerging crisis, without competition. It was given £1 in exchange for its work — but managed to turn that into a £23.5 million longer-term deal later that year, which was subject to legal challenge. Before its latest fillip, Palantir had secured more than £37 million in contracts since 2020 from the NHS and the government.”
And if that sounds suspicious, it’s probably because it is.
A bit like pub landlords getting multi-million pound PPE contracts due to their friendship with Covid-era Health Secretary Matt Hancock, Palantir and senior NHS employees seem to have been operating a two-way revolving door.
The Times reports 25th November 2023:
“Questions have also been raised about the connection between the state and the company. Former Palantir officials have previously left it to work for the UK government, while others have gone the other way — including Harjeet Dhaliwal, the former deputy director of data services at NHS England, whom Palantir has said will not work on any NHS-related projects.”
Knowing what we now know about the sheer lunacy of the covid mandate era, Palantir’s dangerous role in our NHS cannot simply be excused or overlooked due to some efficiencies that have been correctly cited by the young Mosley.
This is especially since PM Starmer takes the view that Palantir should be trusted to allow AI to make decisions as important as admitting and discharging patients, as well as scheduling operations.
The Times reports 13th January 2025:
“Artificial intelligence is already advising doctors which patients to treat, writing up case notes, reading scans in the NHS and the technology could soon help prevent illness. Sir Keir Starmer said that he wanted to seize the ‘huge opportunity’ to use NHS patient records to help develop treatments and tests as he insists hospitals increase use of data-linking software…The NHS’s ‘federated data platform’ already uses AI to help make the most efficient use of operating theatres, offering a scheduling assistant that looks at waiting lists and doctors’ rotas to suggest the most suitable patients to book in when…Palantir, the US company that runs the platform, is testing AI that automatically writes discharge letters after patients’ treatments.”
Such decisions are highly likely to lead to efficiencies. But efficiencies are not the only concern. Civil liberties are too.
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Maajid Nawaz for WARRIOR CREED: ”But Palantir had a direct managerial role in the way in which we were placed under lockdown for many months. We weren’t allowed out of our homes except for 15 minutes a day alone, not with anybody else. It is insane to think back at what we were subjected to. Children weren’t allowed to go to school. Grieving families weren’t allowed to visit their dying ones in hospital and their dying ones were many, many elderly were forced to die alone in segregated wards behind plastic screens, and funerals were held in isolation. It is an abomination what happened in this country under the COVID period, and that’s just the lockdown. Then, of course, there were these insane mask mandates forcing everybody to be gagged using surgical masks that are designed to prevent the transfer of blood, droplets, liquid, droplets from the mouth and nose of the surgeon into the patient and splashes coming the opposite way. Those cloth masks are not designed to prevent tiny virus particles that are many manifold times smaller than the holes in those cloth masks. And yet we were told to put on these useless cloth masks, which is all theatre. Otherwise, we weren’t allowed to leave the home and interact for our essential services such as going to to the store to buy our groceries. And then in addition, the worst of them all, were the mandated covid jabs and we were told that if we did not take them under a policy of ‘no jab no job’ we would lose our jobs, and before anyone argues over this, I personally lost my job as a national broadcaster on LBC, Global’s LBC, uh on a weekend - very popular mind you - talk show, which had over half a million listeners every weekend, even though I took the two Covid jabs under duress for not wanting to lose my family’s only source of income, and therefore under duress trying to hold on to my job, took those two jabs. And then they sacked me anyway, because I boycotted the booster shot in solidarity with all the unvaccinated, because the idiots, the absolute maniacs started suggesting that the unvaccinated should never be allowed to leave their homes, including people at my former station, such as Nick Ferrari and others, who took that position and argued for it on air. It is insane, the position that people took. And all of those positions are online. The internet never forgets, including Nick Ferraris, who still has his job at LBC. All those positions are online that all these media pundits such as Piers Morgan himself took. And he keeps me blocked online for calling him out till this day on that position. They all took the pro mandate positions. They all kept their jobs. And Palantir, this is the relevance of the point: Palantir was the company given the job by the government to manage the data flows during that period by running the daily COVID dashboard. Do you remember the COVID dashboard? It was the dashboard that the government and the NHS used officially to determine the COVID statistics on a daily basis, which would inform their policy and informed policies such as their mandates, including the lockdown, the mask mandate and the jab mandate. Palantir was running that system for the government.”
If our reader yet harbours any doubt about the utter failure of every single covid mandate, we invite them to refresh their view here.
Radical Media reports 10th July 2023:
It is news of the relationship between Palantir and our government’s abysmal Covid response that serves as the first major reason for why the company has now found itself in the cross hairs, despite previously enjoying some public sympathy.
3) Palantir Runs Military AI-targeting Software
The second reason that Palantir’s fortunes have turned is due to the public’s increased awareness, and discomfort, around the role Palantir plays in war abroad, and state surveillance at home.
The Times reports 30th March 2026:
“The contract has attracted controversy because of the company’s work for the US military and intelligence services. One key system linked to Palantir is Project Maven, a US military AI programme that analyses surveillance data to identify potential targets. The company has also been accused of allowing its systems to be used to identify illegal immigrants to be targeted by ICE.”
After the disarming and subsequent execution of US military veterans ICU nurse Alex Pretti by US Border Patrol agents working under ICE, even President Trump distanced himself from the policies of those officials who had been reliant on Palantir’s predictive AI system.
Radical Media reports 29th January 2026
Considering such a predictive AI targeting system was used in Gaza and is now also being used in Iran, many are uneasy about granting the same company dominance over the private, highly sensitive health data of domestic citizens.
The Times reports 3rd March 2026:
“During the US-led invasion of Iraq, a 2,000-strong American intelligence unit was asked to identify targets on the ground for western troops. In Operation Epic Fury against Iran, 20 troops can carry out the same workload. They are using software developed by the CIA-backed technology company Palantir, which uses artificial intelligence to choose and dismiss targets more quickly than the human brain can think…The Pentagon has been developing Project Maven with the help of Palantir since 2018 and the software is embedded in all US combatant commands. It uses AI and machine learning to crunch vast amounts of data, specifically for military targeting and surveillance. Experts compared it to a military version of Uber.”
It is not disputed that Palantir engages in organising military “kill chains”.
The Times reports 3rd March 2026:
“Bryan Clark, a senior fellow and director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute, a think tank, said the system allowed planners to organise kill chains and orchestrate the movement and actions of hundreds of military units. ‘This kind of work would take days using computer spreadsheets, but now planners can complete operational plans within hours or less,’ he said….The British military is pouring millions of pounds into the Palantir technology. To win wars, experts believe, nations will have to capture data faster than the adversary. Data could be provided from myriad sources, such as satellites, surveillance aircraft and assets on the ground.”
And drone warfare is virtually impossible without the use of highly sophisticated AI.
It is the combination of such matters that are concerning for observers.
The Times reports 25th November 2023:
“But although everyone seems to agree that the NHS needs improvement — and that data could be at the core of this — they are far from agreed that Palantir, the company given the bumper contract by the government, is the right face in the frame. ‘I think the selection of Palantir as a supplier is particularly problematic because of the reputation that they have in the marketplace,’ said Simon Bolton, who until January this year was chief executive of NHS Digital.”
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Maajid Nawaz for WARRIOR CREED: “Palantir has contracts with in terms of the US government is for collecting data on predicting where so-called illegal immigrants will be and then providing that data to ICE, the US government department, responsible for the raids that led to the riots last few months ago. And Palantir is the company that is not only responsible for providing the surveillance data on undocumented migrants in the United States of America, but that’s the same company that was providing AI military targeting software to Israel during their ethnic cleansing of Gaza. So this company is of particular concern.”
Such concern is not allayed by the pronouncements and behaviour of the company’s brazen CEO Alex Karp, who publicly boasts about killing people while seeking board member approval.
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Alex Karp: “‘You know, we are doing what in the United Kingdom and many other places, Palantir is here to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world, and when it’s necessary to scare enemies and on occasion kill them. And we hope you’re in favour of that. We hope you’re enjoying being a partner. And we’re really happy and very, very focused on what we’re doing. Thank you for your time’. ‘Thank you. That concludes Q&A for today’s call’. Now, that isn’t AI. That is a real Palantir meeting. That is their real CEO, Alex Karp, saying that Palantir is ‘happy to scare people and on occasion kill’ them. Now, that’s fine. It’s a Pentagon and CIA funded AI-military targeting software company. Fine. You know, sometimes war is necessary. We’re not pacifists here. But should such a company with their CEO acting like a Lex Luthor, real life Lex Luthor from the Superman movies, should such a company also be granted total access to our health data?”
In fact, Alex Karp regularly fantasises about using the immense power he has as CEO of Palantir to go after his enemies.
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Alex Karp, Palantir CEO: “And I also think you often need a lower purpose. Like, the higher purpose, for me... ”
Interviewer: “What’s a lower purpose?”
Alex Karp, Palantir CEO: “Well, I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts who tried to screw us. So that’s my lower purpose. And, uh... Yeah, but... and others. But the higher purpose for me was to get this nation to be the preeminent power in the world. Because whatever faults we have, they’re nothing like anyone else’s.”
People are naturally waking up to the notion that providing such a company, led by such unsavoury personalities as Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, access to our nation’s unified sensitive private health data may not be such a good idea.
The Times reports 25th November 2023:
“…Alex Karp, Palantir’s chief executive, is also a controversial figure. With wild, curly hair, he is an eccentric philosopher-billionaire who unashamedly discusses how his company serves America’s National Security Agency (NSA), FBI and CIA, helping them mine vast troves of data for clues to help them track down terrorists and human traffickers, as well as co-ordinate disaster response efforts. His company is said to have been integral in tracking down Osama bin Laden. Critics ask, though, how the NHS can consider handing over sensitive personal details to such a company. Rather than shy from addressing the question, Karp told the Financial Times last year that Palantir’s partnership with the CIA should reassure NHS users, not worry them. The CIA, he reasoned, is not in the business of dealing with entities that cannot keep data ultra-secure and segmented.”
4) British Medical Association Opposes Palantir
It is for these reasons that the BMA has openly opposed the UK government’s contract with Palantir.
The Times reports 30th March 2026:
“…the British Medical Association has called on NHS England to end the contract, citing privacy fears about patient data being handed to a US tech giant, and ethical concerns about working with a company involved in ‘warfare and human rights violations’…The BMA said the company was an ‘unacceptable choice’ for the FDP (federated data platform). It agreed to ‘lobby at a national level against the continued introduction of Palantir’s software into health data systems, and to terminate all existing contracts that the NHS holds with Palantir’”.
It is precisely due to this breakdown in public trust over the last two years that people have turned away from tolerating government officials and their revolving doors with Big Tech firms.
The Times reports 25th November 2023:
“Elena Simperl, professor of computer science at King’s College London… (said) ‘We have experienced several attempts over the past years to achieve similar aims. No matter how well intended, they fail because of a common set of concerns around data privacy, stewardship and governance, and it is unclear to me whether lessons have been learnt from these experiences,’ she said. ‘With every failed attempt, more people have opted out, and public trust has been eroded’. That erosion in trust after previous failures of data handling in health tech makes it trickier for patients to feel comfortable sharing their health information with the system. As does Palantir’s past. ‘Palantir has a very concerning history in the US of expansive surveillance and targeting, in ways that are intrusive and could undermine the rights of vulnerable groups,’ said Meg Davis, professor of digital health and rights at Warwick University. ‘Any agreement with Palantir should be made public in the interests of transparency, with tough privacy protections’.”
It has also been noticed that whereas Palantir was initially let into government during the Covid-era without competition, and for a mere £1, the £330 million UK government contract did not lack a British alternative.
The Times reports 30th March 2026:
“There were two other bids for the contract: from the US software company Oracle and a consortium of British tech companies led by the firm Quantexa.”
The British company even made it part of its failed bid to focus on the privacy and data security concerns.
The Times reports 16th October 2023:
“Speaking to The Times, Vishal Marria, chief executive of Quantexa, urged the NHS to go with a British company whose staff are ‘all one hop away from the NHS’…Marria said NHS medical records were one of the most important assets the UK had, and that it was vital to ensure the data was put into a platform founded in the country. He said trust and transparency were in the DNA of his company, adding: ‘We come from the right intentions to support what could be a once in a generation data transformation’…Marria warned against contracts with a single supplier that risks ‘vendor lock in’, saying companies in such a dominant position risked ‘having people over a barrel’ by trapping data in software they control. He added that the way his software was designed meant that he had no access to the data, or to the platform once it was deployed in the infrastructure of the healthcare provider.”
Despite this British alternative being on the table, PM Starmer still awarded the UK government contract to Palantir, an American company founded by Epstein associate Peter Thiel.
We do wonder why.
5) Who is Palantir Founder Peter Thiel?
Concerns around Palantir are not restricted to their role in Covid mandates and AI military targeting software. A spotlight is also shone on its founder Peter Thiel.
Like other tech billionaires, Peter Thiel plays up his libertarian anti-state credentials.
The Times reports 25th November 2023:
“The company was founded in 2003 by the enigmatic, libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel, who earlier this year told an audience at the Oxford Union debating society that the UK health service was so sclerotic that ‘the NHS makes people sick’. Pride in the service, free at the point of delivery, was misguided, Thiel said. It wasn’t working. The country had a collective ‘Stockholm syndrome’.”
Most of this is but sly accelerationism on the part of Thiel. Big Tech disdain for the state is not driven by any libertarian principle founded in freedom, rather it is a self-motivated desire to accelerate the demolition of the state so that tech-surveillance corporates may step in and fill the void where the state once existed. This fusion of corporate power and the state is otherwise known as fascism.
Peter Thiel is no people’s champion. This is the same Peter Thiel who has had multiple associations with Epstein, as outlined in detail below…
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