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  • Senior doctors to strike next month unless Health Secretary commits to talks

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/senior-doctors-strike-next-month-unless-health-secretary-commits-talks

    Consultants in England last went on strike in 2023 but have been in dispute with the government since last year

    SENIOR doctors in England will go on strike next month unless Health Secretary Yvette Cooper commits to formal negotiations on pay and working conditions, the British Medical Association (BMA) said today.

    Consultants will strike on November 25 and 26.

    The BMA added that the government has ignored concerns on the wellbeing and workload of medics.

    BMA consultants committee co-chairs Dr Helen Neary and Dr Shanu Datta said: “As the most senior and skilled doctors in the NHS, consultants not only provide front-line life-saving care but they are central to running and designing services, training and supervising the future workforce and ensuring patients get the best treatment possible.

    “Solving the pressures facing the health service will be impossible without valuing and retaining these doctors. Yet the government is failing to recognise this, ignoring our concerns around consultants’ wellbeing and workload and pushing them further away from the NHS.

    “As the much-lauded progress on waiting lists in England stalls, the government is also telling consultants they deserve another pay cut.”

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    Article continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/senior-doctors-strike-next-month-unless-health-secretary-commits-talks

  • Palantir Targets MPs With ‘Intimidating’ Letters

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    https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/22/palantir-targets-mps-with-intimidating-letters/

    Artwork: Filippo Marra/Novara Media | Photo: Roger Harris/House of Commons

    ‘They will not shut me up.’

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    Clive Lewis, the Labour MP for Norwich South, revealed that he had received a letter from Palantir’s new UK senior VP, Tom Watson, warning him that the company was surveilling his activities relating to Palantir last month. Lewis described this as “very Big Brother” and an “implicit threat”. 

    Watson is a former minister and Labour party deputy leader who now sits in the House of Lords, alongside his Palantir job. 

    Lewis told Novara Media the Mosley letters in June indicate that Palantir was panicking as the Starmer administration crumbled. “They put all their eggs in one basket with Starmer, and then the writing on the wall was that he wasn’t going to be around much longer.” 

    Corbyn has repeatedly questioned the wisdom of using Palantir’s tech in the NHS, given the company’s role in supplying military tech to the IDF during the genocide in Gaza and surveillance tools to ICE as it conducts brutal a [sic] immigration crackdown in the US. 

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    A small excerpt of a longer article here: https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/22/palantir-targets-mps-with-intimidating-letters/

  • Recent lobbyist for Palantir had key role in helping Andy Burnham become PM

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    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/02/lobbyist-palantir-martha-dalton-andy-burnham

    Exclusive: Martha Dalton worked closely with Burnham’s team on byelection that secured his return to parliament

    A recent lobbyist for the controversial $450bn US tech company Palantir played a senior role in helping Andy Burnham become prime minister, it has emerged.

    Martha Dalton, whose company Lodestone worked for Palantir in 2024 and 2025, campaigned for Burnham in the Makerfield byelection that secured his return to parliament. She worked closely with his team on strategic communications and rebuttals, and was among supporters who clapped him into Downing Street in July.

    Lodestone, which Dalton co-founded, worked for Palantir on projects including promoting its software at events in parliament where its engineers demonstrated AI-powered systems for use in British public services to MPs.

    Dalton previously worked on the autumn 2025 deputy leadership campaign for the current education secretary, Lucy Powell, a few months after Lodestone stopped working for Palantir.

    Her role emerged as Palantir fights to retain its £330m contract with NHS England to run the federated data platform, a national medical data system.

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    Article continues at https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/02/lobbyist-palantir-martha-dalton-andy-burnham

    Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then.
    Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then.

  • ‘No moral government should tolerate Palantir’s involvement in our NHS’

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/no-moral-government-should-tolerate-palantirs-involvement-our-nhs

     Protesters gather outside Number 10 North in Manchester demanding the government puts an end to spy tech firm Palantir’s role in the NHS, October 1, 2026

    Patients and health workers unite at demos across England demanding the government cut ties with the spy tech firm

    PATIENTS, health workers, and members of the public gathered in more than 40 protests across England today to demand an end to spy tech firm Palantir’s role in the NHS.

    In London, protesters converged on Palantir’s headquarters to hand in a giant “contract terminated” poster as part of a global week of action against the company’s involvement in public services.

    The protests in Manchester, Exeter, Liverpool, Bristol, Norwich, Newcastle, Birmingham and Brighton were organised by campaign groups, including Medact, Global Justice Now, Keep Our NHS Public, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and We Own It.

    Campaigners condemned Palantir’s role in managing the country’s health data, citing its track record of surveillance, human rights abuses and complicity in the genocide in Gaza.

    Speaking at the London rally, Dr Omar Abdel-Mannan, a paediatric neurologist in the NHS who has volunteered in Gaza, said: “Everything that I stand for as a doctor, every principle of the NHS committed to providing equitable healthcare for all, is directly contradicted by the core values and repeated actions of Palantir.

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    Article continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/no-moral-government-should-tolerate-palantirs-involvement-our-nhs

  • Work needs to begin now on fixing our social care system, Not kicked down the road again, say Greens

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    Ellie Chowns, Green Party MP for North Herefordshire. CC image Wikipedia.
    Ellie Chowns, Green Party MP for North Herefordshire. CC image Wikipedia.

    Responding to a pledge made by Andy Burnham that there will be access to free social care services for everyone in England, and that the plans will be put before voters at the next general election, Green Party leader in parliament, Dr Ellie Chowns MP, said:

    “For too long successive governments have kicked social care down the road and treated it as a political football – so it is certainly welcome to hear the Prime Minister both recognising the scale of the challenge and signalling a willingness to work across party lines to tackle it.

    “The Green Party is clear that social care should be available to everyone who needs it and free at the point of use, just like the NHS is for healthcare – it makes no sense that help is available for those facing cancer, but not for those struggling with dementia, disability, or old age.

    “Despite the Prime Minister’s stated commitment to working cross-party on this issue, so far no invitation has been extended to the Greens to take part in discussions. We would therefore like to reiterate to the Prime Minister that the Green Party stands ready to work constructively with the government and other parties to build a social care system that commands broad support and truly works for families across Britain.

    “And for those struggling with the cost of care now, promises of transformative action following the next general election are simply not good enough. After years of delay, we simply cannot kick this crucial work down the road again. Work needs to begin now to fix the system that is failing too many people and putting unsustainable pressure on families and the NHS.”