“And so Lord Glasman may – or may not – appear to be an unusual candidate to enter the eye of the storm since Donald Trump’s re-election in the United States.
Recently referred to as Number 10’s “MAGA whisperer” by The Times, he was the only British lawmaker invited to Trump’s second presidential inauguration, on a freezing January day in Washington, DC, earlier this year.
Glasman was invited there by a long-term contact – now the US Vice President – JD Vance, who admired his writing about class and had first approached him some years earlier, exploring whether the US Democrats could provide a new deal for workers. In DC, Glasman was overawed by the scale of the celebrations and the energy around Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ movement.
He sought out, and was sought after, by some of the most important Trumpworld movers and shakers: Steve Bannon, former Trump campaign manager and co-founder of Cambridge Analytica; the influential ‘Dark Enlightenment’ thinker Curtis Yarvin, and – as Byline Times can reveal – the tech baron and Palantir data firm founder, Peter Thiel.
This would be an impressive list of American contacts to make in less than a year, but more unusual still – given Trump’s well-known connections with Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage (who Glasman regularly debates on GB News) or the long-established links between the US Republican Party and the British Conservatives – is that Lord Glasman has been a left-wing Labour peer for 14 years.”
SmashingK on
They offered deals for close to no charge to get their claws into our health systems.ndifficukt for a govt to pass that up but it’s obviously not a good sign when someone like that tried to give you free candy.
Our politicians are too easily swayed into doing bad things.
borez on
Yeah, and what about BAE Systems?
adobaloba on
The CEO of seeing everything, knowing everything about us 24/7 is…vague? I can’t.
Valisk_61 on
Of all the shit sandwich deals the seppos force on us, this is the deal that makes me want to flip the fucking table. Fuck Palantir.
WinstonFox on
These calls need to be shouts of bloody righteous indignation
Shap3rz on
It’s clearly a national security risk. If this government is not complicit it needs to step the f**k up. These people are as facist and crooked as it gets.
roy_stan on
Peter Thiel appears to be a particularly menacing individual…and there was that other guy high up in palantir that appears to be off his fucking rocker as well!
Frankly, the idea that Palantir could be anything other than a malevolent influence on society incresingly appears laughable!
saoirsedonciaran on
Companies complicit in the mass slaughter of human beings should be nowhere fucking near the health service of any country.
Optimaldeath on
All they’re doing is taking Epstein’s island and expanding it to the entire internet.
/s
Rich_Elderberry_8958 on
the head of Palantir UK is the grandson of Oswald Mosely, fun fact
DeviousMelons on
Let’s trust the company literally named after Sarumans Orb what could possibly go wrong.
SadSeiko on
Starmer needs to wake up, he knows this is a bad idea
Hanamafana on
Wonder how much Mandelson sold the country out for this time. Going by the Epstein files it was never cheap.
In some ways more annoyed at the ones who sell us out for buttons.
ferris2 on
Doesn’t the head of this company see any regulatory force as literally “the antichrist”?
deathtofatalists on
honestly, who the fuck asked for this?
a technofascist run data extraction exercise, not only facilitated but paid for by our own government (i.e us), whereby every detail of our waking lives is sent straight to some ozone devouring data centre on the other side of the atlantic just so whatever shower of fuckups is currently in parilament can get some crumbs from the datamine table. a deal done under shady circumstances, railroaded through under the behest of the best mate of a child trafficking shakedown artist working on behalf of god knows who.
no sane person wants it anywhere near our shores but our esteemed leaders decided they know better.
roll back the contracts and take the OSA with it while your at it, kicking digital ID back to the curb for another decade before some authoritarian spots an opportunity. this government has done absolutely nothing to earn anyone’s trust.
Mccobsta on
Isn’t Palantir something massively evil from lord of the rings
soulsteela on
There are few people on the planet who could be trusted less than Peter Thiel when it comes to being in charge of everyone’s private data.
As a US citizen: if the US govt uses it, yours probably shouldn’t.
Judders_Luigi on
Holy shit we are actually waking up.
I _knew_ deep down we are not as stupid as the yanks.
audigex on
There are so many of these consultancy-type companies and I’ve no idea why we spend so much money on them
It just seems to be a never ending merry-go-round of handing them cash to analyse how to reshuffle things so that 5 years later a different one can be paid a big pile of cash to tell us why it went wrong
My NHS organisation (and 4 others) spent a ridiculous amount of money on Deloitte putting together a bullshit report about how we should merge things like the porters, finance, and estates departments to save money, and then now they’ve merged those the government is telling the trusts to make a reduction in headcount to realise the savings
… how the fuck is a porter meant to be in Blackpool, Chorley, Blackburn, Preston, and Kendal at the same time?
So obviously the burden is falling disproportionately on some of the other merged services, who are already over-stretched… areas like finance and IT are going to be absolutely smashed to pieces trying to make up the numbers
So obviously 3 years later almost nothing has actually happened, the requirement to reduce headcount is increasing even more because the savings aren’t being achieved so even more will be required etc
I can already see how badly it’s going to go to shit, and in 5 years time they’ll bring in PwC to tell us how we should give Palantir, Capita, or Accenture a load of money to take over the “failing” services that were actually doing okay when you look at what they’re achieving on a fairly small budget
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No way, the associate of Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, is opaque about his business dealings?
Bylinetimes was on this months ago.
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/blue-labour-and-the-thiel-effect-how-maga-is-making-in-roads-into-british-politics/
“And so Lord Glasman may – or may not – appear to be an unusual candidate to enter the eye of the storm since Donald Trump’s re-election in the United States.
Recently referred to as Number 10’s “MAGA whisperer” by The Times, he was the only British lawmaker invited to Trump’s second presidential inauguration, on a freezing January day in Washington, DC, earlier this year.
Glasman was invited there by a long-term contact – now the US Vice President – JD Vance, who admired his writing about class and had first approached him some years earlier, exploring whether the US Democrats could provide a new deal for workers. In DC, Glasman was overawed by the scale of the celebrations and the energy around Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ movement.
He sought out, and was sought after, by some of the most important Trumpworld movers and shakers: Steve Bannon, former Trump campaign manager and co-founder of Cambridge Analytica; the influential ‘Dark Enlightenment’ thinker Curtis Yarvin, and – as Byline Times can reveal – the tech baron and Palantir data firm founder, Peter Thiel.
This would be an impressive list of American contacts to make in less than a year, but more unusual still – given Trump’s well-known connections with Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage (who Glasman regularly debates on GB News) or the long-established links between the US Republican Party and the British Conservatives – is that Lord Glasman has been a left-wing Labour peer for 14 years.”
They offered deals for close to no charge to get their claws into our health systems.ndifficukt for a govt to pass that up but it’s obviously not a good sign when someone like that tried to give you free candy.
Our politicians are too easily swayed into doing bad things.
Yeah, and what about BAE Systems?
The CEO of seeing everything, knowing everything about us 24/7 is…vague? I can’t.
Of all the shit sandwich deals the seppos force on us, this is the deal that makes me want to flip the fucking table. Fuck Palantir.
These calls need to be shouts of bloody righteous indignation
It’s clearly a national security risk. If this government is not complicit it needs to step the f**k up. These people are as facist and crooked as it gets.
Peter Thiel appears to be a particularly menacing individual…and there was that other guy high up in palantir that appears to be off his fucking rocker as well!
Frankly, the idea that Palantir could be anything other than a malevolent influence on society incresingly appears laughable!
Companies complicit in the mass slaughter of human beings should be nowhere fucking near the health service of any country.
All they’re doing is taking Epstein’s island and expanding it to the entire internet.
/s
the head of Palantir UK is the grandson of Oswald Mosely, fun fact
Let’s trust the company literally named after Sarumans Orb what could possibly go wrong.
Starmer needs to wake up, he knows this is a bad idea
Wonder how much Mandelson sold the country out for this time. Going by the Epstein files it was never cheap.
In some ways more annoyed at the ones who sell us out for buttons.
Doesn’t the head of this company see any regulatory force as literally “the antichrist”?
honestly, who the fuck asked for this?
a technofascist run data extraction exercise, not only facilitated but paid for by our own government (i.e us), whereby every detail of our waking lives is sent straight to some ozone devouring data centre on the other side of the atlantic just so whatever shower of fuckups is currently in parilament can get some crumbs from the datamine table. a deal done under shady circumstances, railroaded through under the behest of the best mate of a child trafficking shakedown artist working on behalf of god knows who.
no sane person wants it anywhere near our shores but our esteemed leaders decided they know better.
roll back the contracts and take the OSA with it while your at it, kicking digital ID back to the curb for another decade before some authoritarian spots an opportunity. this government has done absolutely nothing to earn anyone’s trust.
Isn’t Palantir something massively evil from lord of the rings
There are few people on the planet who could be trusted less than Peter Thiel when it comes to being in charge of everyone’s private data.
This article always comes to mind whenever I read about Palantir: https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-what-the-company-does/
As a US citizen: if the US govt uses it, yours probably shouldn’t.
Holy shit we are actually waking up.
I _knew_ deep down we are not as stupid as the yanks.
There are so many of these consultancy-type companies and I’ve no idea why we spend so much money on them
It just seems to be a never ending merry-go-round of handing them cash to analyse how to reshuffle things so that 5 years later a different one can be paid a big pile of cash to tell us why it went wrong
My NHS organisation (and 4 others) spent a ridiculous amount of money on Deloitte putting together a bullshit report about how we should merge things like the porters, finance, and estates departments to save money, and then now they’ve merged those the government is telling the trusts to make a reduction in headcount to realise the savings
… how the fuck is a porter meant to be in Blackpool, Chorley, Blackburn, Preston, and Kendal at the same time?
So obviously the burden is falling disproportionately on some of the other merged services, who are already over-stretched… areas like finance and IT are going to be absolutely smashed to pieces trying to make up the numbers
So obviously 3 years later almost nothing has actually happened, the requirement to reduce headcount is increasing even more because the savings aren’t being achieved so even more will be required etc
I can already see how badly it’s going to go to shit, and in 5 years time they’ll bring in PwC to tell us how we should give Palantir, Capita, or Accenture a load of money to take over the “failing” services that were actually doing okay when you look at what they’re achieving on a fairly small budget