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🆕 blog! “UK Government Kicks Out Palantir”
The UK Government, for all its faults, is pretty good at publishing contracts it has awarded. That's why I get depressed when I see rage-bait nonsense about how companies have been award "Top Secret" deals.
Right now you can go to https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk and search for whichever bête noire has you riled up. You …
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/uk-government-kicks-out-palantir/
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@Edent 😁 at least some good news for the morning, thank you. But is it true what Fazal Majid states; "Palantir are still gorging on the NHS and intelligence services like a tick. The level of corruption involving Mandelson, and the fact their local office is run by Oswald Mosley’s grandson is just staggering."?
@Edent as to your footnotes, but I love the blog
1) the civil service’s distaste for Palantir is an open secret, only you don’t get the SCS (or equivalent) opining pseudo-anonymously about how much they hate it
2) I often stumble over MHCLG and often just end up with “the department formally known as deeluck.”
3) MHCLG understands the benefits of federation very well recently despite abandoning W3C-standards backed approaches to dissemination. I’m not surprised they managed this, regardless.
@Edent kicked out in one small place Palantir probably forgot they even had, when they are still gorging on the NHS and intelligence services like a tick. The level of corruption involving Mandelson, and the fact their local office is run by Oswald Mosley’s grandson is just staggering.
@Edent Thanks for the kind words Terence! Hoping to put more code open soon...
@Edent ouch. "Software bad enough the *british* government thought it was worth rewriting in house"?!
Damn
@Edent You’ve typoed “controversy” as “controvery” in the blog post!
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