Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest
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Oct 9, 2026
Basil ValentineCORRESPONDENT
Another one was revealed today in The Guardian.
Basil ValentineCORRESPONDENT
But chief amongst them is the Labour peer, former deputy leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson, who is now senior vice president at Palantir.
Basil ValentineCORRESPONDENT
Palantir, paid a hefty whack, no doubt.
Basil ValentineCORRESPONDENT
And he's been paid a hefty whack for 16 months of voting as well.
Richard SloggettGUEST
Let me start with Palantir itself.
Richard SloggettGUEST
Very interesting that they've hired Tom Watson to basically do their government engagement.
Richard SloggettGUEST
And for the government, the question will be this.
Richard SloggettGUEST
It will be, operationally, it probably is a complete pain to activate the break clause, go through a process, appoint someone new and bring someone new in.
Coco KhanHOST
There's been lots of pushback around Palantir having NHS contracts.
Coco KhanHOST
Palantir have now hired Tom Watson, who's in the House of Lords.
Coco KhanHOST
I mean, flagrantly showing their ability to influence government.
Coco KhanHOST
What is this elevation? I still can't really wrap my head around it.
Don McGowanHOST
Um-
Sal DodgsonHOST
Just to add, uh, [chuckles] to the woes, the general woes of the world, uh, The Guardian have allowed, um, Tom Watson to write a massive puff piece about Palantir today.
Don McGowanHOST
Fucking piece of shit.
Sal DodgsonHOST
Labor and ex-Labor [chuckles] are not covering themselves in glory this week, I've got to be honest.
Don McGowanHOST
But carry on anyway, sorry.
Sal DodgsonHOST
Yeah.
Sal DodgsonHOST
Well, Tom Watson put out a tweet.
Sal DodgsonHOST
He's written this article today, and he put a tweet this morning saying, "We help..." We, as in Palantir, "We help nurses and doctors improve public services.
AlasdairHOST
Shall we move on to something else? Yeah, go on.
AlasdairHOST
Well, Tom Watson's back in the news.
AlasdairHOST
Oh,
RobHOST
good.
RobHOST
Why can people...
AlasdairHOST
Why can people never leave? Rob, you remember once upon a time in 2015, in the run-up to the Labour leadership race of that year, and Tom Watson was regarded as someone who might stand up against some of the powerful right-wing forces in Britain in the wake of the hacking scandal, etc.
AlasdairHOST
Yeah,
RobHOST
and then proceeded to sit on his fucking thumbs and do absolutely fucking nothing.
Alexei SayleHOST
It has to come from the bottom.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
I see that shitbag Tom Watson
Alexei SayleHOST
who was a It was Jeremy's deputy.
Alexei SayleHOST
The traitor.
Tim ShipmanHOST
And this is what conference used to be about when we were in our 20s, Johnny.
Tim ShipmanHOST
We were, you know, you, me, I think Tom Watson might have been there.
Tim ShipmanHOST
We were having breakfast at approximately half past four in the morning.
Jonathan AshworthGUEST
Yeah, it was certainly...
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Tom Watson joins Palantir and the UK political rot deepens.
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Tom Watson joins Palantir and the UK political rot deepens.
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When data mining requires more charisma than coding, it's clear that influence is the new currency in the tech dystopia.
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