Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026/01/22/zack-polanski-to-hand-in-nhs-contract-termination-notice-to-palantir/

19•robtherobber•1h ago

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chews•1h ago

TACO meets FAFO. Nice to see the Brit’s doing something about this.

mc32•1h ago

As if that will stop surveillance and data collection and summonses for the hoi polloi for saying mean things about their elected officials…

They’ll just hire someone else to do the data collection and analysis for them.

It’d be awesome if they did actually stop their surveillance but I wouldn’t be too optimistic about it.

chrisjj•1h ago

Bogus clickbait title. Its claim is unsubstantiated by the article body

theptip•1h ago

To be clear, Polanski doesn’t have authority to terminate anything, and this is a letter notifying Palantir that they will be cancelled _if the Greens win_.

Quite misleading title in the article.

maxehmookau•1h ago

I'm not a fan of Palantir being involved in the NHS, but this is just political campaigning.

Polanski is head of a political party with, currently, almost no power in the UK. This is symbolic campaigning. Which is fine, but don't be fooled in to thinking it would change anything.

rhdunn•40m ago

And at the next election -- if the current polling stays consistent -- they are likely to get 15-85 seats, which is not enough for them to gain power. Even then they are unlikely to form a coalition as Labour are not doing well in the polls currently, and the gain in support for the greens is largely coming at Labour's expense.

[1] https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_U...

crimsoneer•58m ago

Presumably he'll have one of these to Google, Microsoft and AWS anytime now. Oh wait, no, because that won't get him the clickbaity headlines he actually wants rather than actually trying to improve the NHS.

spants•15m ago

He will not (hopefully) ever be in power to do this.

He is a failed actor and a conman hypnotist who convinced gullible women that he could increase their breast size with hypnotism.

drcongo•14m ago

No he didn't.

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