Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain
Carole Cadwalladr
How JD Vance’s path to being Trump’s VP pick wound through Silicon Valley
June 2024
Follow Robert Reich
Why is a group of billionaires working to re-elect Trump?
Robert Reich
Oligarchs like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel aren’t just hostile to progressivism. They’re hostile to American democracy itself
March 2024
Olympic great Kieren Perkins blasts Enhanced Games, saying 'someone will die' – video
Swimming legend tells the SportNXT conference 'someone will die if we allow that sort of environment to continue to prosper and flourish'
February 2024
Enhanced Games: drug-friendly sports competition gains prominence even as the backlash grows
The Week in Patriarchy
For all his obsession with innovation, Peter Thiel has some stone-age views
Arwa Mahdawi
December 2023
My plan to topple the Tory dark lords in 2024
Stewart Lee
We need a fellowship of socially conscious heroes to fight the Conservatives and NHS data-grabbing firms and save our democracy
November 2023
AI doesn’t cause harm by itself. We should worry about the people who control it
Kenan Malik
Patient privacy fears as US spy tech firm Palantir wins £330m NHS contract
Palantir’s Peter Thiel: NHS is a natural target for outspoken tech billionaire
Everything you need to know about NHS England’s biggest ever IT contract
NHS England gives key role in handling patient data to US spy tech firm Palantir
Peter Thiel won’t fund any 2024 races after backing Trump in 2016: ‘It was crazier than I thought’
Thatcherite conservatism is on its last legs. I’ve had a disturbing glimpse of what might replace it
Andy Beckett
October 2023
The Audio Long Read
‘Our health data is about to flow more freely, like it or not’: big tech’s plans for the NHS – podcast
The government is about to award a £480m contract to build a vast new database of patient data. But if people don’t trust it, they’ll opt out – I know, because I felt I had to
September 2023
The long read
‘Our health data is about to flow more freely, like it or not’: big tech’s plans for the NHS
The long read: The government is about to award a £480m contract to build a vast new database of patient data. But if people don’t trust it, they’ll opt out – I know, because I felt I had to
April 2023
Ex-minister predicts ‘battle royale’ over US firm’s bid for NHS data contract
David Davis among cross-party MPs with privacy concerns over prospective Palantir deal
March 2023
Billionaire Peter Thiel claims he has $50m of his own money stuck in SVB fall
In the wake of the bank’s crisis, venture capitalists have been trading accusations over who is responsible for the collapse
November 2022
Controversial £360m NHS England data platform ‘lined up’ for Trump backer’s firm
Patients will have no say over records going to Palantir, the software giant run by billionaire Republican backer
October 2022
A social network for bigots? No wonder Kanye West wants to buy Parler
Arwa Mahdawi
The rapper’s antisemitic remarks have got him banned from Twitter and Instagram. But here’s a safe space where he’ll be able to say just what he likes, writes Arwa Mahdawi
