What is Palantir?

What’s the hidden connection between the NHS, Israel, Jeffrey Epstein and the Lord of the Rings? Harriet Williamson asks why a spy-tech firm – whose technology is used by the IDF in Gaza and ICE in the US – has access to NHS data in the UK. Palantir’s biggest ever UK government contract, worth £240m, was awarded after prime minister Keir Starmer attended a meeting at the firm’s headquarters in Washington last February. But Starmer never declared the visit to the public.