I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan

Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves

Andy Burnham faces a ” – Palantir. The US defence and surveillance tech behemoth has a swathe of British public contracts, including, most controversially, a of putting politics over progress: “To me, what matters is what works.”

Peter Geoghegan runs the investigative website