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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology

Don’t knock Palantir – it provides highly skilled, well-paid British jobs

People carrying blue umbrellas walk past a large illuminated Palantir Technologies sign in Davos
The logo of the software company Palantir Technologies in Davos, Switzerland, in 2022. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

Clive Lewis is, unusually, right about one thing in his recent article: there is a danger of rot setting in (Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics, 24 September). But I think he is looking in the wrong place.

Attack me if you want, Clive. I’ve been around long enough to take it. But don’t malign the nearly 1,000 people I now have the privilege of working alongside.

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