What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

No statesman can prosper without learning the correct lessons from history, and having already waved aside medical confidentiality, national security and intellectual property rights in the interests of private profit, His Majesty's Government could hardly be expected to hold the taxpayer's financial data particularly sacred. Accordingly, the Financial Conduct Authority is going to spend the next three months throwing taxpayers' money at Palantir in return for the privilege of giving Palantir access to some eminently saleable information. The company, which is named after a highly selective surveillance device in a fantasy universe where virtuous races combine to wipe out an evil race, was founded by a sponsor of the Trumpster and his head-tribble, and has supported Team Starmer's ideological brothers in both ICE and the sacred Israeli military. Victims of the Post Office scandal will doubtless join other patriots in rejoicing at the news that yet further functions of the great British State are to be entrusted to a corporate profiteer; especially if they know what's good for them.