Palantir and London's policing office withdrew their legal claims, avoiding a January High Court trial over a blocked £50m Met AI contract. Their joint statement says values played no part in the May block, so no court has ruled on a buyer's ethics objections.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 4%
- Operator
- Operator 46%
- Investor
- Investor 50%
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence75
Cancellations and displacement of Black music events cost London up to £141m a year, report says
Black Lives in Music's two-year investigation puts the annual cost to London of barriers facing Black and south Asian music events at £127m to £141m. The study, commissioned by the mayor's office, also faults unverified police intelligence in licensing.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap
- Not scored
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence55
Palantir's Tom Watson, a former Labour deputy leader, warned against 'mob rule' in procurement as MPs and unions press to drop a £330m NHS deal. Any exit ministers choose now carries legal risk as well as political cost.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives78
- Confidence66
British Transport Police extends a £320,786 face-scanning trial that yielded one wrong alert
British Transport Police is extending a £320,786 facial recognition trial that scanned over 500,000 faces and produced one false alert and no arrests. Its public defence leans on arrests officers made during deployments that its own performance data leaves out.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+60
- Incentives55
- Confidence60
Washington's embassy urged Americans in Britain to exercise caution after police arrested five men near RAF Fairford on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act. Its warning covers US-linked organisations and gatherings in Britain, well beyond the Gloucestershire cordon.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 5%
- Operator
- Operator 71%
- Investor
- Investor 24%
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence65
Crypto entrepreneurs prepay 72 million pounds to Reform UK ahead of a possible donation cap
Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each gave Nigel Farage's party 36 million pounds in a weekend, more than every UK party raised in donations all last year, and Delo's monthly pledge was handed over up front.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives72
- Confidence41
NESO's transparency notice lists what leaving Foundry would cost: redevelopment, data migration, security accreditation, retraining. It is the exit bill most buyers only estimate, written down by the organisation that owes it.
Reality
- Evidence74
- Adoption78
- Hype gap−6
- Incentives68
- Confidence72
A ministerial letter makes Palantir's NHS data platform optional for trusts
James Frith says mistrust of Palantir may be pushing patients to withdraw their records from research, and in the same letter he tells the health committee that trusts are no longer required to use the platform at all.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives78
- Confidence55