Here's what most people don't understand about Palantir. They are busy with "second empire building", which refers to the digital colonisation of social and economic life, where private corporate entities assume the traditional roles of the state (sovereignty, identity management, and economic regulation).

The head of Palantir's UK branch is Louis Mosley, grandson of British fascist Oswald Mosley. His strategy for penetrating British healthcare was explicit: "Buy our way in" by acquiring smaller companies, then "take a lot of ground and take down a lot of political resistance."

Palantir has 24 contracts with key public institutions, the NHS, the Cabinet Office, the police forces, the Ministry of Defence, GCHQ, and Coventry City Council.