[Tubby Isaacs]

Strong defence of the Palantir NHS contract here by a former very serious NHS IT manager.

He's very sure that there's no alternative to it, at least not before the break in the contract can be exercised. He says data protection arguments are mistaken anyway, akin to thinking that using Word means that Bill Gates has your data. I've great frustration with the way these sort of issues get pushed now (normally with Jolyon Maugham and a predictable group of backbench MPs in the vicinity) with no sense of trade offs. If a load more people die because of bad data, that's not on them- they'll probably trace the problem back to Wes Streeting's donors anyway.

I do think there is a stronger case with new Palantir contracts though. And I think pushing longer term independence from US tech is a sensible idea.

https://www.bartlettdata.co.uk/post/blog-coming-soon