Palantir and London's policing office withdrew their legal claims, avoiding a January High Court trial over a blocked £50m Met AI contract. Their joint statement says values played no part in the May block, so no court has ruled on a buyer's ethics objections.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 4%
- Operator
- Operator 46%
- Investor
- Investor 50%
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence75
Palantir's Tom Watson, a former Labour deputy leader, warned against 'mob rule' in procurement as MPs and unions press to drop a £330m NHS deal. Any exit ministers choose now carries legal risk as well as political cost.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives78
- Confidence66
Taylor Wimpey and Berkeley pull back from new London housing over planning costs
Berkeley has cut its London target from about 6,000 homes a year to 3,000 as it and Taylor Wimpey say the capital's planning costs are no longer worth it. Its existing sites will still be finished, so the supply loss grows after they are done.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence50
Developers count 76% of London office bike racks empty as Khan plans looser rules
London Property Alliance research found 76% of cycle parking in 21 London office buildings empty at peak, backing Sadiq Khan's plan to cut rack rules. The draft would free basement floorspace for other uses, though the evidence for it comes from the developers who pay to build those floors.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives85
- Confidence40
Half the saplings Trees for Cities planted in London died in this summer's heat and drought
Trees for Cities says half the saplings it planted in London in the past year died this summer, when 80 to 90 per cent normally survive. Kew's modelling suggests the replacements will need to be different species.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence50
British Transport Police extends a £320,786 face-scanning trial that yielded one wrong alert
British Transport Police is extending a £320,786 facial recognition trial that scanned over 500,000 faces and produced one false alert and no arrests. Its public defence leans on arrests officers made during deployments that its own performance data leaves out.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+60
- Incentives55
- Confidence60
England weighs plan to let seven city-regions tax hotel rooms with no set cap
The charge is a percentage of the room rate, set region by region, and the only figure on the table is the 5% ceiling London's mayor and other Labour mayors say they would respect. Edinburgh already charges it.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence45
NESO's transparency notice lists what leaving Foundry would cost: redevelopment, data migration, security accreditation, retraining. It is the exit bill most buyers only estimate, written down by the organisation that owes it.
Reality
- Evidence74
- Adoption78
- Hype gap−6
- Incentives68
- Confidence72
A ministerial letter makes Palantir's NHS data platform optional for trusts
James Frith says mistrust of Palantir may be pushing patients to withdraw their records from research, and in the same letter he tells the health committee that trusts are no longer required to use the platform at all.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives78
- Confidence55