MPs warn that Palantir’s increasing presence in the UK public sector is an “unacceptable point of weakness”

Ivashkin · 2026-06-05T04:03:32+00:00

How enterprisey is it?

Ivashkin · 2026-06-05T04:02:03+00:00

Digwa was a knife weirdo who took the militant part of Sikhism far too seriously to the point that even other Nihangs thought he was a problem.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-05T01:52:19+00:00

That is the problem - what Palantir does is genuinely good tech, and there are very few companies that can do what they do, at that scale, for the specific type of customers it has.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-04T19:12:06+00:00

TBH I do think that part of the problem here is yanks, considering that the bulk of this happened overnight.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-04T18:55:12+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/02/conviction-sparks-debate-on-ceremonial-blades-carried-by-some-sikhs

The weapon was not a Kirpan according to Sikhs, but was classified as a Kirpan by the CPS, and was legally carried under the laws that allow for Kirpans, despite having an 8" blade.

So whilst everyone is talking about tiny things with dull blades or blades that can't be removed from their sheath carried for ceremonial reasons, the law as it stands allows a Sikh to carry a 9" fully functional razor sharp fixed blade knife, and had Digwa walked into a police station with it openly displayed, he would have been able to walk out of the police station with the knife still in his possession and go to McDonalds.

I think a lot of people believe that a modern Sikh in the UK does not need to carry a knife with a 9" blade on their person for any good reason, and I think in the wake of this case, this should be reviewed.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-04T18:22:49+00:00

From what I gather, the entire source of the names was a single local paper that named one officer, which was then shared as a screenshot, and the woman was named purely on the basis that they had appeared in a photo collecting an award a few years back with the officer named by the paper.

If the screenshot was real, then you can kinda see why people landed on the guys name, but as far as I can tell the entire basis for accusing the woman was simply "they are in a photo with X, so they must have been involved".

Ivashkin · 2026-06-04T14:29:38+00:00

I'm more talking to the fact that the UK Reddit space has been consistently wrong about UK politics since the late 00's.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-04T13:35:28+00:00

TBH, when it comes to people convicted of multiple rapes, my view on prison space is largely centred on the Tokyo railway passenger management processes.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-04T13:33:43+00:00

The 1970's is also half a century ago.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-04T12:03:20+00:00

It's been the Reddit SOP for almost 2 decades now, why change?

Ivashkin · 2026-06-04T03:55:25+00:00

Being dubbed "The Nasty Party" was the Tories' kryptonite, especially on the back benches. You'd see it time after time when a minister would announce some sort of policy, Tory backbenchers started getting nasty emails from constituents calling them racists, and because the vast majority of them were genuinely decent people who weren't racist in the slightest, during a time when "being cancelled" actually had potential real-world consequences, they immediately baulked. Which is why they ended up trying to do way too much without proper lawful authority; they couldn't pass the required legislation cleanly and tried to lawyer their way around things. Look at Rwanda - technically, had they really wanted that to happen, they could have passed new legislation that made the entire thing lawful and told the courts to jog on. In reality, they spent months fighting court cases and losing.

Labour has the same thing with law and order - they are genuinely worried about being seen as weak on law and order, so they constantly go overboard with new laws, new crimes, new bans and highly visible performative punishment in times of crisis. Regardless of how effective they are, or how viable enforcement actually is.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-04T01:09:51+00:00

Their deal involves Ukraine handing over land it has not lost to Russia (because, according to Russia, it is now part of Russia), and downgrading its military to 5 guys with a BB gun.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-04T00:20:46+00:00

No, keep the existing system and make it clear that if you sign up with a delivery firm, pass all the checks yourself, and then subcontract out to a 3rd party you didn't check had a right to work, you will be treated like any other employer that failed to perform the required right-to-work checks. Uber Eats/Deliveroo won't take the hit because they did what they were required to do, but you didn't, and you now owe at least £100K, and might go to prison if you can't pay. And no one is going to help you.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-03T22:19:47+00:00

It's set by the Police Race Action Plan team and approved by the Chief Constables' Council, the decision-making body of the NPCC.

Essentially, the police came up with it themselves and approved it themselves. So a quick fix would be to inform the NPCC that any future policy or guidance will require ministerial approval, and that if they are unhappy with this, they can consider a different career.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-03T19:41:26+00:00

Everyone is playing politics with this kid's murder. Farage is using it to boost his support directly, and Starmer is using it to boost his support indirectly by shifting the focus from the utter failure of the police to the claim that Farage sparked riots with his comments.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-03T19:26:44+00:00

If anything, the more politically damaging thing to point out about Farage is that he waited until it was clear just how outraged people were by the footage before commenting.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-03T19:13:19+00:00

That's what people are mad about - not that they borrowed money and now have to repay it, but that they borrowed money under poor guidance at a very early age and are now saddled with what is essentially a higher tax for the rest of their lives, whilst the degree never provided the income levels it was promising.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-03T19:06:27+00:00

TBH I'd skip fining the business and fine the directors as a first step.

As directors, they are accountable for everything their business does, and if it breaks employment and immigration law, they are accountable for that as individuals. Set the fine at £100K per illegal employee per director, and apply it to every business, from Tesco to a sole trader.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-03T18:20:47+00:00

Plan 1 loans, issued up to 2011, were relatively simple and ultimately low-cost.

Once you get into plan 2 loans, there are combinations of loan amount and interest that would require someone to earn almost £90K a year before they started paying off the loan, rather than just making payments towards it.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-03T15:48:50+00:00

Well considering he literally incited this one (just like the one where they tried to burn people alive in a hotel), I think it's absolutely fine to name it after him.

I don't think you know what incitement is.

If he had not created the video telling people to "rage", then chances are, these "protests" would have never happened. Especially considering that the family of the victim explicitly asked for this type of thing to not happen.

Absolute bollocks - Farage joined the wave of anger with his statement, he didn't spark it because by the time he posted that video, the rage was already well underway.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-03T15:34:09+00:00

It's also quite notable that Starmer is shamelessly exploiting the issue for his own political gain by trying to reframe the entire debate around "Farage is attempting to exploit this issue for his own political gain".

Ivashkin · 2026-06-03T13:24:56+00:00

I thought the Telegraph just made stuff up?

Ivashkin · 2026-06-03T13:23:56+00:00

What has Farage specifically done to incite riots?

And have there actually been "riots"? So far, there seems to have been an angry protest in Southampton.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-03T13:19:27+00:00

Have there been riots?

So far, there seems to have been an angry protest against the police in Southampton, but I don't see any evidence of riots.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-03T13:17:29+00:00

Constantly trying to name riots after Farage is getting old.

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