I was interviewed by Prospect about how Palantir has infiltrated the British state.
I told Propsect:
“Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period”
I believe the health service should be investing in its own systems. I also told Prospect:
“I know people will say, ‘the NHS had a terrible history with IT systems’… Well, change that… [Palantir is] not investing in us for our benefit, they’re investing in us for their benefit, and that goes against the very founding principles of the NHS.”
But this is also bigger than just Palantir:
“There is no real programme for government other than handing over an ever greater share of our democracy, our national institutions, our data and our economic capabilities to these organisations.”