Keith Hodgson
@bannerbright.bsky.social
Former union organiser. Interested in life long learning and community education. From NE England
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn
Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information
Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn
Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information
Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn
Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn
Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information
Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn
Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information
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If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
'Peter Mandelson's Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions'
Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
bylinetimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:41 PM
If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
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Everything connected to Mandelson must now be under suspicion? Thiel and Palantir links must be reexamined. McSweeney must be investigated for his involvement with both Mandelson and Thiel.
If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
'Peter Mandelson's Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions'
Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
bylinetimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Everything connected to Mandelson must now be under suspicion? Thiel and Palantir links must be reexamined. McSweeney must be investigated for his involvement with both Mandelson and Thiel.
This is also why Palantir has become embedded in our military and public services - a company he lobbied for as Ambassador.
It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
February 2, 2026 at 9:11 AM
This is also why Palantir has become embedded in our military and public services - a company he lobbied for as Ambassador.
Well worth reading with detailed research
"The Fraud" sounds like a must-read
for anyone thinking of supporting
Starmer's approved privatising candidate
at Gorton & Denton
"Paul meticulously documents the undeclared donations, leaks, lies and smears behind the Starmer project. How they used smears to discredit anyone who challenged them"
for anyone thinking of supporting
Starmer's approved privatising candidate
at Gorton & Denton
"Paul meticulously documents the undeclared donations, leaks, lies and smears behind the Starmer project. How they used smears to discredit anyone who challenged them"
Most politicians are liars - but every so often, someone exposes the truth
Paul Holden's The Fraud meticulously documents Starmer's lies - and the Gorton and Denton by-election is another chance to do that, writes the Green Party's Jamie Driscoll
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...
Paul Holden's The Fraud meticulously documents Starmer's lies - and the Gorton and Denton by-election is another chance to do that, writes the Green Party's Jamie Driscoll
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...
February 2, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Well worth reading with detailed research
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England's water companies don't pay fines.
Thames Water, with nearly 200 criminal convictions, fined £122.4m in Aug/Dec 2024 for sewage dumping, paying illegal dividends.
Secretly agreed - Paid only £24.5m (20%) in Sept 2025. Remaining 80% may be paid by 2030 or never.
Why are companies indulged?
Thames Water, with nearly 200 criminal convictions, fined £122.4m in Aug/Dec 2024 for sewage dumping, paying illegal dividends.
Secretly agreed - Paid only £24.5m (20%) in Sept 2025. Remaining 80% may be paid by 2030 or never.
Why are companies indulged?
Public ownership of water is the only way to deliver security, efficiency, investment and value for money
37 years of privatisation has been a disaster
leftfootforward.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:33 AM
England's water companies don't pay fines.
Thames Water, with nearly 200 criminal convictions, fined £122.4m in Aug/Dec 2024 for sewage dumping, paying illegal dividends.
Secretly agreed - Paid only £24.5m (20%) in Sept 2025. Remaining 80% may be paid by 2030 or never.
Why are companies indulged?
Thames Water, with nearly 200 criminal convictions, fined £122.4m in Aug/Dec 2024 for sewage dumping, paying illegal dividends.
Secretly agreed - Paid only £24.5m (20%) in Sept 2025. Remaining 80% may be paid by 2030 or never.
Why are companies indulged?
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We got Palantir's user guide for ELITE, the tool they made for ICE: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 30, 2026 at 3:08 PM
We got Palantir's user guide for ELITE, the tool they made for ICE: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...
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We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org.
www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...
www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...
January 29, 2026 at 3:42 PM
We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org.
www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...
www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...
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🔴 'Domestic Terrorism': ICE Contractor Palantir's Tools for Tracking Dissent
Peter Thiel's firm – which has contracts with the UK's NHS and MoD – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE's data platform to conduct mass deportation, @nafeez.bsky.social reports
Peter Thiel's firm – which has contracts with the UK's NHS and MoD – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE's data platform to conduct mass deportation, @nafeez.bsky.social reports
‘Domestic Terrorism’: ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent
Peter Thiel’s controversial data firm – which holds contracts with the UK’s NHS and Ministry of Defence – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platform to ...
bylinetimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:17 PM
🔴 'Domestic Terrorism': ICE Contractor Palantir's Tools for Tracking Dissent
Peter Thiel's firm – which has contracts with the UK's NHS and MoD – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE's data platform to conduct mass deportation, @nafeez.bsky.social reports
Peter Thiel's firm – which has contracts with the UK's NHS and MoD – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE's data platform to conduct mass deportation, @nafeez.bsky.social reports
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How did a US spy tech firm used to target migrants under Trump get inside Britain’s public services?
Palantir, explained ⬇️
citizensreunited.substack.com/p/palantir-e...
Palantir, explained ⬇️
citizensreunited.substack.com/p/palantir-e...
Palantir, explained - and sign our petition calling for an urgent debate in parliament!
At a glance, Palantir sells software. In practice, it provides government with the infrastructure to monitor, investigate and target people at scale.
citizensreunited.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:11 PM
How did a US spy tech firm used to target migrants under Trump get inside Britain’s public services?
Palantir, explained ⬇️
citizensreunited.substack.com/p/palantir-e...
Palantir, explained ⬇️
citizensreunited.substack.com/p/palantir-e...
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January 28, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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Disabled people in Mozambique need urgent help after deadly Mozambique floods: 645,000 people affected, with at least 112 deaths. Maputo, Gaza, Inhambane, Sofala & Zambezia provinces affected. More rain is predicted.
January 28, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Disabled people in Mozambique need urgent help after deadly Mozambique floods: 645,000 people affected, with at least 112 deaths. Maputo, Gaza, Inhambane, Sofala & Zambezia provinces affected. More rain is predicted.
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The path to Venezuela – and potentially next to Colombia, Cuba, and Greenland, other targets of Donald Trump’s colonial greed – was paved in Gaza.
Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...
Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...
From Gaza to Venezuela, the US has been unmasked as the serial villain
The path to Caracas – and potentially next to Colombia, Cuba, and Greenland, other targets of Donald Trump’s colonial greed – was paved in Gaza
www.middleeasteye.net
January 6, 2026 at 3:08 PM
The path to Venezuela – and potentially next to Colombia, Cuba, and Greenland, other targets of Donald Trump’s colonial greed – was paved in Gaza.
Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...
Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...
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January 4, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Trump's attack on Venezuela will create global instability.
Will prolong the Ukraine war. How could the US condemn and sanction Russia?
Encourage Putin to kidnap Zelensky.
Encourage China to takeover Taiwan.
What is the point of the UN if rogue powers can do whatever they want?
Will prolong the Ukraine war. How could the US condemn and sanction Russia?
Encourage Putin to kidnap Zelensky.
Encourage China to takeover Taiwan.
What is the point of the UN if rogue powers can do whatever they want?
January 4, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Trump's attack on Venezuela will create global instability.
Will prolong the Ukraine war. How could the US condemn and sanction Russia?
Encourage Putin to kidnap Zelensky.
Encourage China to takeover Taiwan.
What is the point of the UN if rogue powers can do whatever they want?
Will prolong the Ukraine war. How could the US condemn and sanction Russia?
Encourage Putin to kidnap Zelensky.
Encourage China to takeover Taiwan.
What is the point of the UN if rogue powers can do whatever they want?
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"Washington is desperately trying to assemble a new anti-Venezuela, anti-Cuba, anti-Nicaragua axis."
Geopolitics, Resistance and the Battle for Venezuela: A Conversation with Atilio Borón
Political theorist Borón provides a comprehensive analysis of Washington’s new military activity in the Caribbean and how to resist it.
buff.ly
January 1, 2026 at 8:04 AM
"Washington is desperately trying to assemble a new anti-Venezuela, anti-Cuba, anti-Nicaragua axis."
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Grenfell firms still receiving multimillion-pound public contracts.
In 2027, 72 people died due to faulty cladding. No one charged.
Post Office scandal - postmasters fraudulently convicted of crime. Fujitsu still gets public contracts. After 30 years no one charged.
See the pattern of corruption.
In 2027, 72 people died due to faulty cladding. No one charged.
Post Office scandal - postmasters fraudulently convicted of crime. Fujitsu still gets public contracts. After 30 years no one charged.
See the pattern of corruption.
Grenfell firms still receiving multimillion-pound public contracts, analysis finds
Survivors urge government to stop using suppliers cited in public inquiry into fire in which 72 people died
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Grenfell firms still receiving multimillion-pound public contracts.
In 2027, 72 people died due to faulty cladding. No one charged.
Post Office scandal - postmasters fraudulently convicted of crime. Fujitsu still gets public contracts. After 30 years no one charged.
See the pattern of corruption.
In 2027, 72 people died due to faulty cladding. No one charged.
Post Office scandal - postmasters fraudulently convicted of crime. Fujitsu still gets public contracts. After 30 years no one charged.
See the pattern of corruption.
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Former Wessex Water CEO received £170k bonus despite ban on performance pay.
Received total of £693,000 in pay from Malaysian-owned parent company, YTL Utilities (UK), including bonus.
Company has 47+ criminal convictions, dumps sewage in rivers, fleeces customers, rewards bosses.
Received total of £693,000 in pay from Malaysian-owned parent company, YTL Utilities (UK), including bonus.
Company has 47+ criminal convictions, dumps sewage in rivers, fleeces customers, rewards bosses.
Former Wessex Water boss received £170,000 bonus despite ban on performance pay
Company owners say bonus was unrelated to water business and complied with ban after pollution conviction
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Former Wessex Water CEO received £170k bonus despite ban on performance pay.
Received total of £693,000 in pay from Malaysian-owned parent company, YTL Utilities (UK), including bonus.
Company has 47+ criminal convictions, dumps sewage in rivers, fleeces customers, rewards bosses.
Received total of £693,000 in pay from Malaysian-owned parent company, YTL Utilities (UK), including bonus.
Company has 47+ criminal convictions, dumps sewage in rivers, fleeces customers, rewards bosses.
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Yesterday, I visited my constituent, Amu Gib, who has been detained in HMP Bronzefield without trial since July.
Amu is now on Day 39 of their hunger strike, yet there is complete silence across our mainstream media.
This is an emergency. They must be granted bail, now.
Amu is now on Day 39 of their hunger strike, yet there is complete silence across our mainstream media.
This is an emergency. They must be granted bail, now.
December 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Yesterday, I visited my constituent, Amu Gib, who has been detained in HMP Bronzefield without trial since July.
Amu is now on Day 39 of their hunger strike, yet there is complete silence across our mainstream media.
This is an emergency. They must be granted bail, now.
Amu is now on Day 39 of their hunger strike, yet there is complete silence across our mainstream media.
This is an emergency. They must be granted bail, now.
Detailed thread here by Ben analysing the serious weakening of the Employment Rights Bill.
[thread 🧵] In its journey from Labour’s 2019 Manifesto to its current iteration, the Employment Rights Bill has been watered down in many ways, including: (1/10)
December 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Detailed thread here by Ben analysing the serious weakening of the Employment Rights Bill.
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Here we go. The Govt has u-turned on its manifesto pledge to give all workers protection against unfair dismissal from their first day in a job. A predictable u-turn for Starmer’s Labour, this was a crucial jigsaw piece if you want to protect the most precarious workers. (1/2)
November 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Here we go. The Govt has u-turned on its manifesto pledge to give all workers protection against unfair dismissal from their first day in a job. A predictable u-turn for Starmer’s Labour, this was a crucial jigsaw piece if you want to protect the most precarious workers. (1/2)
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How Amazon, from its warehouses to the killing fields of Gaza to our public services, is becoming out technofeudal overlord. And how the Resistance is already beginning! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How Amazon turned our capitalist era of free markets into the age of technofeudalism | Yanis Varoufakis
Amazon Web Services owns the basic infrastructure for other businesses to operate online, turning even governments into its serfs, says the leader of MeRA25, Yanis Varoufakis
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
How Amazon, from its warehouses to the killing fields of Gaza to our public services, is becoming out technofeudal overlord. And how the Resistance is already beginning! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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