Watching ministers talk about NHS data strategy is like watching someone confidently rewire a house with no understanding of electricity. The language sounds polished, the reassurances are endless, but the substance just isn’t there.
Choosing a company like Palantir isn’t a neutral technical decision. It’s a long-term structural commitment with real implications for control, access, and public trust. Yet it’s presented as a simple procurement exercise.
And when political careers move on, as they always do, there’s rarely any reckoning for decisions that reshape public infrastructure for decades. That asymmetry should concern everyone.
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Palantir: NHS pilot’s “success” is questioned as second figure at major trust is linked to the tech giant | The BMJ
https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s680
@TheKeystoneCollective Look no further than politicians talking about chat control. They seriously believe that physical laws and mathematics will obey political decisions. In our time and age, the utter incompetence and low quality of our leaders is both amazing and scary.
Is it systemic?
Have we painted ourselves in a corner? Does "western democracy" mean that the worst float to the top?
If so, it will take a global financial crash or a new world war to shake up the system. Sadly.
