Here’s @ZackPolanski on @BBCNewsnight last night pointing out that there are serious questions to be asked about Palantir’s UK state contracts

The Nerve’s investigation reveals the extent of these contracts and maps the major figures in Peter Thiel’s network. Catch up 🧵👇 2/10
@carolecadwalla, @CharlieNotOld and Max Colbert reporters that Peter Thiel’s defence and surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

NEW What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here

Peter Thiel's data company is powering ICE operations in the US. In part 2 of the Nerve’s Palantir series, @carolecadwalla argues that the UK will be next- & we map Thiel’s network/🧵
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NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the ex-Ukip/Reform politician and close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over ten years for taking multiple bribes via a handler from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story..🧵⬇️ 2/ So we made a timeline of Gill's pro-Russian political activities, what each of his 8 charges related to, the police evidence and the context. For this piece of service journalism, we went back to the profession's roots! We produced a pamphlet to hand out at the Old Bailey...

NEW: Former Brexit MEP/Reform politician Nathan Gill is sentenced to ten and a half years at the Old Bailey on 8 counts of bribery by a Russian agent.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb. Details revealed in court raise questions about Nigel Farage’s claim that Gill was "one bad apple". WhatsApp messages show Gill sought to recruit other Brexit/Reform MEPs to make pro-Kremlin statements & that his handler took direct orders from Putin ally Viktor Medvedchuk