In this week's issue
- Experts warn NHS’s contract with Palantir creates lasting risk of mass surveillance in health service
- Far-right weaponisation of Henry Nowak’s death highlights need for solidarity among targeted communities
- Gaza-bound aid convoy forced to abandon mission after 11 volunteers were detained in Libya
- Paul Rogers: Despite fragile ceasefires, there is no clear route to peace in the Middle East
- How leftist senator Iván Cepeda made it into Colombia’s presidential runoff against the odds
- Ghana’s draconian anti-LGBTQ bill passes – but even its key backers are calling for the law’s recall
- Plus: This week in history and what we’re reading
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I can’t quite believe that three years into Palantir’s £330m contract with the NHS, a cross-party committee of MPs still has to ask the government to come clean about precisely what sensitive personal information of British citizens is held by the controversial US military contractor, and on what statutory basis. One would argue this would be something to sort out before the contract gets underway?
This week, MPs urged the government to exercise a “break clause” in the contract in 2027, using the remaining time to shop around for British alternatives.
