📌 ICYMI — David Hencke: The Journalist Who Made Us All Better — Mark Conrad tips its hat with love and gratitude to our acclaimed investigative reporter who has died aged 79 of liver cancer

Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Johnson is now in the frame for breaching for the same parliamentary rules as Farage by accepting a gift from the same donor. Report for @thenerve.news from me & @charlienotold.bsky.social 2/ www.thenerve.news/p/harborne-r...

Writing for @thenerve.news, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social‬ and @charlienotold.bsky.social reveal that Farage's sugar daddy has also been feeding ex-PM Boris Johnson - who failed to declare gifts as required. The rot in right-wing British politics clearly rises to the top.

Fantastic read from @mc00.bsky.social & @charlienotold.bsky.social Great primer on Palantir, their insidious reach and the pushback against them citizensreunited.substack.com/p/the-eye-01...

NEW The Harborne Receipts: Follow the Money Billionaire Christopher Harborne gave millions to Nigel Farage & Boris Johnson & their parties. Then the pro-crypto announcements began. We mapped a timeline of Harborne's £30m political donations and crypto-friendly announcements by Farage & Johnson 1/

NEW: The Crypto Connection. @thenerve.news brings you…Part 1 of The Harbourne Receipts. A forensic examination of the cryptobillionaire’s donations & Farage’s crypto announcements. And guess what? There’s a pattern. Starting with the now infamous £5m gift. www.thenerve.news/p/investigat... 1/

While all eyes are on Farage, we're overlooking something even worse: the building of the very tight and truly vile operation that is Restore Britain. This excellent essay/report by Simon Pearson should wake us up to the threat - and to what exactly it is. simonpearson1.substack.com/p/tory-30

This is all happens in 2023. Farage goes apoplectic on GB News about Coutts/Nat West. He is supported by Boris Johnson. GB News owner makes a mint shorting NatWest stock. Boris Johnson offered a GB News slot

For example, Palantir recruited the two most senior AI strategists from the Ministry of Defence & NHS. It has won multimillion £ contracts with both Report by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @tuckerian.bsky.social + @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-r...

I have signed a letter to the Foreign Secretary about the escalation of deadly Israeli settler violence in the West Bank and Israel’s systematic demolition of Palestinian homes. The letter urges the government to make diplomatic interventions and impose sanctions on Israeli settlements.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

NEW MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security. One said: "Ministers clearly have a lack of understanding of Palantir’s technology" Investigation by Charlie Young @charlienotold.bsky.social Report by Charlie Young and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 🧵 1/7

"Mosley said that, if Reform won the next general election with a 'clear public mandate' to allow NHS data to be used for immigration enforcement, then the company would execute the plan."

"By killing [Khamenei], the US and Israel didn’t just strike Iran’s government. They struck a spiritual leader with transnational religious authority – and created exactly the kind of martyr that galvanizes movements for generations." - fascinating and important piece by Iran scholar Narges Bajoghli

Yes, we're live again at the Cockpit Theatre on March 2nd! Joining us: @natashadevon.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @askwilliamblake.bsky.social @mayeroflondon.bsky.social @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Tickets: www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...

I mean look: the wealthiest person in the world is extremely rude and obnoxious; the largest party in the world is far-right; the two most populous countries in the world are autocracies. The bad guys are the System. Opposition to them is transgression.

👀 👀 Look how much Reform funding has come from Tory donors! Nerve investigation finds: 🟡 Donors giving to both parties at once 🟡 Tory donors switching to Reform, jacking up amounts 🟡 Reform donors giving to specific Tory MPs… who then defect to Reform By @charlienotold.bsky.social 🧵

I wish it were true that "no one is above the law". But while the City of London acts as laundromat for the world's dirty money, as almost all fraud and waste crime go unprosecuted, as no one has gone to jail for the financial crash or the poisoning of our rivers, this is manifestly untrue.

Read the full piece by @charlienotold.bsky.social and subscribe: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-fun...

Follow the money: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from Tory donors, we can exclusively reveal The majority of the money behind Farage’s movement was being supplied by Conservative interests even before the defection of so many high-profile figures from the party, writes @charlienotold.bsky.social

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here Peter Thiel's data company is powering ICE operations in the US. In part 2 of the Nerve’s Palantir series, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social argues that the UK will be next - and we map Thiel’s network🧵 www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

🔴 'Domestic Terrorism': ICE Contractor Palantir's Tools for Tracking Dissent Peter Thiel's firm – which has contracts with the UK's NHS and MoD – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE's data platform to conduct mass deportation, @nafeez.bsky.social reports

Well this seems to have hit home… Worth taking a moment to appreciate human graphic design. Contracts data is boring. The names of government agencies are grey. IT language is dull. Convert it all into a single visual hit? BOOM! Thank you to Lynsey Irvine, the Nerve’s genius creative director. 🙏⚡️

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

REVEALED: Peter Thiel’s Palantir have over £630m in UK Government contracts. They’re laced through major projects with the NHS, the Home Office, and the Ministry of Defence: including our nuclear weapons program. By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, @mc00.bsky.social and myself for @thenerve.news

🔴NEW: I worked w @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Charlie Young on this investigation mapping Palantir's public sector contracts, including previously unreported spend with the Nuclear Propulsion Integrated Project Team (NP-IPT) and AWE Nuclear Security Technologies: www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert 🔗⏬

Two things to learn from this. 1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors. 2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

RSVP: bit.ly/masscall126 On Saturday, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in front of witnesses. Enough is enough. #NoKings #ICEOUTforGood #AbolishICE

"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?" Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

Unrolled thread on BBC online coverage of the shooting (and false claims about the shooting) skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

' #RachelReeves reduced the UK shared prosperity fund for 2025-26 from £1.5b to £900m – a cut of 40%.' Whilst, pumping £13BILLION into the blood-stained,claws of Arms and Bomb-making vultures! #GetTheRedToryWarmongers OUT of OUR misery! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Netflix and Warner Bros announce a deal. Trump warns of antitrust breach. Then David Ellison, son of Larry Ellison (poss. Trump's closest tech ally), throws an extra $20bn at Warner Bros to try to overpower Netflix, grab WB himself. The Ellison media empire's metastasising at speed. Hegemony, live

Private water has failed this country. So I’m co-hosting a briefing in Parliament for MPs to make sure they know the truth about why public ownership is the solution. We’ve got just 24 hours to get my colleagues there. Can you help? actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...