Possibly one of the more surprising entries in Global Counsel's list of recent EU clients:

Interesting to look at the Global Counsel clients who don't (yet) seem to have distanced themselves from the firm - eg OpenAI, Drax are among those listed on the EU lobbying register for the current year: transparency-register.europa.eu/search-regis...

Former Amazon UK chief Doug Gurr has now been 'interim' head of the UK's competition regulator for over a year: www.gov.uk/government/n...

'testimony from one former top safety executive...claimed Meta once had a “17x” strike policy for accounts engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex”. '"...you could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended.”'

the dude whose entire piece hinges on “the left is missing out cuz an open ai dude says so” defends tech ceos *pretends to be shocked*

Love this so much, especially the juxtaposition of English folklore paths with an Amazon spokesperson going out of their way to deny a person driving their branded vehicle is an employee.

Alpha School, an "AI-powered" private school that costs as much as $65k a year, is generating faulty lesson plans and stealing content from textbooks for training data www.404media.co/students-are...

Goodwin is employing a straight-up Holocaust denier.

The author of this piece appears to also be a 'visiting researcher' at Google DeepMind (www.leverett.harvard.edu/people/adam-...) - which seems like something the NYT should mention in the bio? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...

Interesting piece, whichever side of the argument you're on. Puts me in mind of the stat that 10% of Meta's revenue comes from ads for scams. At a guess, scam income prob comes more from pensioners than from kids - will the Govt stop Meta harming the former too? www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Important story - yet more evidence for the obvious conclusion that the Tony Blair Institute is a lobbying org, largely working for the Trump-Big Tech axis, and not a 'think tank'. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...

DSIT completely ignoring questions about their meetings with Mandelson and Palantir: questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

It feels like every time someone looks under the bonnet of Big Tech's 'innovation', there's just more outsourcing there: futurism.com/advanced-tra...

God, this annoys me. If you “don’t know” then the precautionary principle applies. You either accept that it’s possible and behave as if you’ve created a novel consciousness with rights, and your company is now essentially a nature reserve/maternity ward… OR…

Amazing stuff. Does OpenAI's President think for a second anyone believes this?

Oracle runs gas-powered data centres. Oracle's chief funds the TBI. TBI calls for gas-powered data centres. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/volt...

Worrying that the Govt is listening to TBI. They're also calling for the construction of new fossil gas generation to power data centres. A position which is presumably entirely unconnected to the huge funding they receive from Larry Ellison www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Internal Health Dept docs obtained by @foxglovelegal.bsky.social show discussions around how to deal with Palantir's 'public perception' problems. Ministers know the public - and NHS medics - don't want Peter Thiel's firm anywhere near the health service. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Rarely mentioned but about much of Ratcliffe’s business ‘success’ is based on draining public money (very common among these ‘self made tycoons’) Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...

Jim Ratcliffe complains about people 'draining resources from the state,' while also benefiting from 700m euro-worth of support from the British taxpayer for a plastics factory in Belgium. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Genuinely hard to think of another industry that’s treated like this. “Researchers working with Claude” rather than “people employed by Anthropic“ is a v odd choice of words.

'Childnet, a UK charity part-funded by companies including Snap, Roblox and Meta, edited out warnings from Lewis Swire and Saamya Ghai that social media addiction was an “imminent threat to our future” and obsessive scrolling was making people “sick”'. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I read through the texts, emails, and iMessages between Steve Bannon and his good friend, and self described “cornerman,” convicted sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. My dispatch from the files: www.ms.now/news/steve-b...

In 2024, OpenAI was a client of the lobbying firm Mandelson founded. In 2025, the US tech giant signed a major “strategic partnership” with the uk govt - while Mandelson was ambassador. Questions go beyond just Palantir: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"The US company Palantir Technologies is hosting a lavish party for the Ministry of Defence to celebrate winning a government contract" www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

This is far from the worst thing about this piece, but who knew this was how we pronounced 'San Francisco'? www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Interesting that the Times have chosen to illustrate this piece about Palantir with a view from a bomber in WW2. It's not an allied bomber. www.thetimes.com/business/com...

This is the key point that is lost in so much Westminster bubble talk on net zero. It is popular. It’s hugely popular with Labour’s base and with the progressive voters it needs to vote tactically to defeat Reform. And it’s even popular with Tories who Labour needs not to switch to Reform.

Kind of staggering this. Easily available info - it’s in global counsel’s disclosures on the uk and eu lobbying registers. And plenty of people raising questions about it even at the time.

Last year, the UK Govt refused our request to release info about Mandelson's links with US tech giant Palantir. Join our call for full transparency: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

The questions the UK Government needs to answer over Mandelson, Palantir and Big Tech: www.foxglove.org.uk/2026/02/06/u...

How has this changed so much in such a short time? How has such divisiveness and hatred become so commonplace across social media platforms? Since when did it become acceptable to question a child's Britishness on the basis of their skin colour?

"Let the techbros bark, Sancho, it's a sign that we're riding." Classic Spanish clap-back to Durov from Sanchez here.

Depressingly, this isn't even the first time the Govt has presented dubious figures from the tech industry as their own:

The US diplomat leading on this effort is a former lawyer for Big Tobacco and tech firms: www.ft.com/content/f869... (see: www.state.gov/biographies/... )

"In June, Downing Street rejected a request from the fair tech campaign @foxglovelegal.bsky.social to publish briefings to Starmer before his visit with Mandelson to a Palantir showroom in Washington DC...Palantir signed a £241m deal with the MoD last month." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

US diplomat Sarah Rogers is “targeting the UK’s Online Safety Act and the EU’s Digital Services Act.” Trump-Big Tech axis clearer than ever.

If Reform-aligned 'think tanks' take money to promote 'American values', they should be honest about what those values are. The death penalty? Bullying universities? Opposition to abortion? Gleeful racism? Shooting protestors? Then they should explain why they don't want to promote British values.

US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe ft.trib.al/rg4IDIC

Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

Support our call to the UK Government for transparency over Lord Mandelson's links with Palantir - sign here: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

It still doesn't seem clear what will happen when the ISC reaches a view on what should be released - will it be released? Or will it still be the Govt's final decision, as it always is in every other circumstance involving the ISC?

Italian man investigated over claims he paid to shoot people during 1990s siege of Sarajevo

It's quite something to remember that the BBC had interviews with both Mandelson and the UK head of Palantir less than a month ago, on the same programme, and managed never to ask about or even mention their links: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Here’s Palantir’s uk chief Louis Moseley in July last year, confirming they still use Global Counsel - the lobbying firm set up by Mandelson:

France has just renewed a three-year contract with Palantir to provide software and support for intelligence operations. With new European alternative emerging (investigative platform like Siren, DataWalk, and ChapsVision) all EU contracts with Palantir should come under scrutiny.

Genuinely astonishing that the Govt has been dragging its feet - for a year - to avoid releasing something as basic as Mandelson's declaration of interests on becoming Ambassador. If there's anyone in govt who shouldn't have been allowed to withhold info like this...

Good to see cross-party calls for transparency around Mandelson’s Palantir links, including from @zackpolanski.bsky.social Mandelson’s lobbying firm - in which he still had a stake - had Palantir as a client in 2025. The same year the firm won a massive new deal with the MoD.

We @foxglovelegal.bsky.social have called on the govt to release info about Lord Mandelson’s links with US tech giant Palantir and its growing number of uk govt contracts www.theguardian.com/politics/202...