So, Matthew Swindells (a senior NHS official - joint chair of four NW London NHS Trust) urged his colleagues to put more patient data into Palantir's patient record system, at the same time that he was a paid consultant for Palantir.
Once again, the privatisation of NHS functions is riddled with conflicts of interest; the move to private provision is hardly a 'reasoned' decision but rather is the result of the corrupt purchase of influence.
h/t FT
@wood5y @ChrisMayLA6 never, the Establishment looks out for its own. Can you recall a single instance of accountability in the last 70 years or more? Aberfan, the Cambridge 5, Bloody Sunday, Hillsborough, Jean-Charles de Menezes, war crimes in Afghanistan or Iraq, Grenfell, tainted blood, Post Office Horizon, the list just goes on, with the guilty as often as not promoted like Lord Robens (Aberfan) or Cressida Dick (Menezes).
That's why the Andrew formerly known as Prince or Mandelson being arrested is so newsworthy, but they have not been prosecuted and condemnded for their crimes.
@wood5y @ChrisMayLA6 compare that with France, where former heads of state like Jacques Chirac or Nicolas Sarkozy were successfully prosecuted, or Germany where so was Helmut Kohl, who reunified the country. Italy had a revolt led by its judges to nail corrupt politicians.
Just as Americans are unaware of how bad their health "care" system is, Brits are blissfully unaware of the corruption and unaccountability of its elites, starting of course with the royal family setting the tone.
@fazalmajid @ChrisMayLA6 I almost mentioned Profumo.
I believe this is a deeply corrupt, unequal medieval backwater of a country and, more disturbingly, there appears to be little appetite to change things.
For example, an elected 2nd chamber to replace the 'Lords' was first mooted in the 1910s, but the ermine-clad appointees are still there on the red benches.
@wood5y @ChrisMayLA6 including sanctimonious rapists like the Bishop of Lincoln.
That said, it's not surprising, indoctrination begins early, like all the Elizabeth jubilee-themed art assignments in my daughter's primary school. Not that different from another monarchy, North Korea, really.
@fazalmajid @ChrisMayLA6 I recall all the sycophancy over Elizabeth Mountbatten-Windsor's 25th anniversary in 1975.
It turned me into a lifelong republican.
Turning back to the 'Lords' and the clergy, the only other legislative chamber in the world with reserved seats for the clergy is #Iran.
It's not a good look, Blighty!
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