Dawn Butler calls for scrutiny over Epstein link with NHS leech Palantir

Evil tech giant and NHS leech Palantir has links with wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And Labour MP Dawn Butler has rightly called for scrutiny.

Butler insisted we should “not ignore” the connection between Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel and Epstein, particularly because it has infiltrated our public health system:

We can not ignore the fact that Peter Thiel co-founder of Palantir is featured numerous times in the Epstein files https://t.co/QXoz6C94D1

— Dawn Butler ✊🏾💙 (@DawnButlerBrent) February 3, 2026

She had previously highlighted how the Conservatives let dodgy tech giants Palantir, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon get their grubby hands during the Covid-19 pandemic on our health data. In 2021, she expressed concern over the lack of transparency and the consequences for our data privacy.

Palantir embeds within the US, the UK, and Israel

As the Canary has reported, Palantir:

• Is staunchly pro-Israel.
• Has “deep ties to British and American security agencies”.
• Has gained lots of experience helping to smear progressives, back right-wing causes, and mistreat vulnerable people.
• Had links to the dodgy campaigning surrounding Brexit.
• Is already deep within the UK’s military and police establishment.
• Received investments from the shady multimillionaire donor behind Keir Starmer’s Labour Party.
• Has just got a £240m deal to give services to the British military, as Starmer has cosied up even further to the company (with help from Epstein friend and general prince of darkness Peter Mandelson).
• Had Epstein in its corner, encouraging close friend and Israeli war criminal Ehud Barak to learn more about the company. It later ended up profiting from Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
• Is getting deeper and deeper into the US government, and is a key part of Donald Trump’s dystopian domestic terror campaign.
• Co-founder Thiel powered US vice-president JD Vance’s rise to prominence.
• CEO and co-founder Alex Karp is a vile warmonger, arrogant gaslighter, and misanthropic authoritarian. He seems to think war crimes are fine, that the West has “obvious, innate superiority”, and that violence (rather than ideas) is the path to dominance.

Neocolonialism

Palantir has latched onto the US imperial project and is now a prominent part of it. By extension, this means entering junior partners in the UK and Israel too. And apparent intelligence assets like Epstein helped to ensure companies like Palantir become part of this system of racist brutality and dominance.

Journalist Whitney Webb has written about:

The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein

And because of developments like artificial intelligence, mass surveillance, and drones, the baton has passed from people like Epstein to companies like Palantir. As Webb said in 2025:

you don’t really need Epstein in the Surveillance Era…

[Israel and others] don’t really need blackmail anymore…

Palantir, Peter Thiel’s company… that’s the new Jeffrey Epstein…

"They don't…need blackmail anymore…Palantir…[is] the new Jeffrey Epstein…if they want to blackmail [you]…they…access…your finances, tweets you've liked…[&] the disturbing thing about Palantir is…it's…about pre-crime. [They're] pioneers of predictive policing"… pic.twitter.com/3Il0l3IhuR

— Sense Receptor (@SenseReceptor) August 1, 2025

Countries around the world have already started to realise the importance of technological independence from the US and its dystopian corporations like Palantir. And if UK politicians don’t heed calls to do the same, they need to lose their jobs.

Because for the sake of humanity and our future, we should not only “not ignore” all of this, as Dawn Butler rightly said. We also need to actively campaign to kick companies like Palantir out once and for all.

Featured image via the Canary