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Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears
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The US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others – in what MPs have called “a parody of a RoboCop film” and “the ramblings of a supervillain”.
Key facts
- Palantir has built up more than £500m in contracts in Britain, including a £330m contract with the NHS, as well as deals with the police and Ministry of Defence
- The team are proud that support is being provided by the 17% of their workforce who are based in the UK – the highest proportion among the world’s 20 biggest tech companies
- Palantir’s ‘manifesto’ sounds like the ramblings of a supervillain,” said Victoria Collins, a Liberal Democrat MP
- This latest round of incoherent, comic-book villain worthy statements from Alex Karp demonstrates how deeply embedded Palantir is in the Trump-Big Tech axis, fixated on US dominance and utterly unsuited to being anywhere near their public services
Summary
“Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive,” wrote Palantir in a 22-point post on X over the weekend, which also called for an end to the “postwar neutering” of Germany and Japan. The post exhorted the US to reinstate a military draft, saying that “free and democratic societies” need “hard power” to prevail. It also predicted a future dominated by autonomous weapons: “The question is not whether A.the reporter. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose.