US tech giant Palantir’s gigantic Ministry of Defence (MoD) contract shows how the UK has become a colony of American power. The Trump-allied firm will support “data analytics capabilities supporting critical strategic, tactical and live operational decision making across classifications”.

Palantir pocketing from the public AGAIN

Tech bosses will pick up £240mn. That is three times the amount of the last contract, signed in 2022. Politico called it the “biggest ever” UK defence deal:

Under the partnership, the MoD said Palantir would invest £1.5 billion and create 350 new jobs in the U.K. In return, it said it would work with Palantir to “identify opportunities … worth up to £750 million over the next five years.”

In a government press release from September, before the deal was finalised, Palantir’s Trump-aligned nerd CEO Alex Karp said:

This partnership reflects our deep commitment to the UK. It will see up to £750m invested in the most advanced AI-enabled defence technology, honed on the battlefield in Ukraine and used extensively by the US and NATO. It will reinforce the UK’s position as a major military force protecting the West from our adversaries. And it will underline the UK’s status as our largest presence outside of the US.

But Palantir isn’t just a tech firm. It’s been involved in human rights abuses the world over.

Abominable record on human rights

Your Party MP and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was withering about the deal. He told Middle East Eye (MEE):

From Trump’s anti-migrant authoritarianism to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Palantir has enabled abominable human rights abuses around the world.

For example, Palantir technology was used in the 2025 Israeli pager attacks in Lebanon.

Shockingly, the firm already have access to UK health data through an existing NHS contract. Corbyn said:

Palantir have already got their hands on millions of people’s health records.

“ow the government is outsourcing our foreign policy as well.

Why can’t we have our own independent foreign policy based on solidarity and peace instead?

And criticism has come from the political right too. Former defence secretary Ben Wallace said in September:

True defence collaboration is sharing and growing manufacturing jobs. It isn’t some fake London office with a few PR people and ad campaigns abusing our Union Jack.

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese also mentioned Palantir in report published in July 2025 which warned there

are reasonable grounds to believe Palantir has provided automatic predictive policing technology, core defence infrastructure for rapid and scaled-up construction and deployment of military software, and its Artificial Intelligence Platform, which allows real-time battlefield data integration for automated decision making.

So this isn’t just any old deal for technology or services. Palantir is tied to Trump’s far-right worldview, to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and it is led by a man who is himself a political extremist. Just day’s ago one of the firm’s founders declared the purpose of Palantir was “to kill communists”.

And this is a company which covers much more than defence. The bizarre decision to involve it with our health service has left the entire population at the mercy of these fascistic maniacs.

Featured image via the Canary

By Joe Glenton

This post was originally published on Canary.