Despite the blocking of a motion at Labour conference calling on ministers to cancel Palantir’s NHS contract over the company’s links to the Israeli military, the government is still under increasing pressure not to renew the £330m deal – for other reasons as well.
The public are increasingly getting a grip on the controversy surrounding the company, which specialises in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and software commonly used for surveillance, border enforcement, policing, and warfare. It is linked, through the right-wing politics of its billionaire founder and chair, Peter Thiel, to the US Trump administration, and its software products have been used by Israel in Gaza. as the company describes, to help the “country’s war effort”
Full article in The Lowdown, 20 October 2026
