Patient, Record

The BBC cannot get enough of Nigel Farage, so of course it has not banned him from Desert Island Discs; such blacklisting is reserved for Jeremy Corbyn. Farage was always going to be on it eventually, but he is growing impatient. Many appearances have been amusing at the time, such as Aung San Suu Kyi’s hilariously middlebrow playlist, while others are good for a laugh in hindsight, such as the fact that Nicola Sturgeon’s luxury item was a coffee machine. The coffee was clearly flowing in her household, since Peter Murrell bought 108 toilet rolls hours before she warned against panic buying during the pandemic.

Remaining in the lavatory, more joy in heaven and all that, but what new information caused James Murray to change his mind about whether a person with a Y chromosome and a penis could be a woman? Still, the Single Patient Record is a good idea in principle, even if the concerns about security and confidentiality are more than valid. Unlimited access to identifiable patient data has already been granted by NHS England to the Palantir of Jeffrey Epstein’s Peter Thiel, to the Palantir that was a client of Epstein’s Peter Mandelson, to the Palantir of ICE and IDF infamy, and to the Palantir with which Mandelson and Keir Starmer had off-the-books meetings in Washington while Mandelson was Ambassador there. Expressly in support of Javier Milei, Thiel himself is now based in Argentina, which is the only country in the world that might conceivably invade British territory.

A solution is at hand. The Terrorism Act was not designed to counter or deter the Armed Forces of other sovereign states, even if proscription is a lot cheaper than rebuilding the real means of doing so. But as the proscription of Palestine Action was an all-or-nothing measure that also banned the Russian Imperial Movement and the Maniacs Murder Cult (and how are the presumably urgent battles against those progressing?), so the proscription of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps should be an all-or-nothing measure that also banned ICE and the IDF. Palantir is embedded in both, and it is one of several means of enmeshing them with each other, so if they were banned in Britain, then it could not possibly have any part in our NHS or anything else.