THE END IS A BEGINNING

Some news … and sadly not the kind you pop open the champagne for.

Palantir, explained - and sign our petition calling for an urgent debate in parliament!

At a glance, Palantir sells software. In practice, it provides government with the infrastructure to monitor, investigate and target people at scale.

Putin/Farage 2026!

Plus: Mapping The Authoritarian Stack

Caution, ICE Ahead

Plus: AI-Proof Your Career

The year ahead

How we’re responding as power concentrates and the rules begin to fray.

No Simulations Here (Right?)

Plus: Be a super signer.

New Year, New Us

Plus: Stand Up for Anti-Disinformation Heroes

Five Years of Standing Up to Power

2025 marks 5 years of the Citizens taking on the tech-bros and their enablers. Here’s exactly what we’ve done.

Handing out the 2025 Hardware

Plus: AI Eats the World

The Rise of The Techtopia

Plus: A Big Mad Billionaire

Now Hiring: Reform Party PR Team

Plus: Knit for Privacy

Meta Mad

Plus: An Ice Bath with Nigel

The Long Game: Russia, Britain, and the Cold War on Trust

Once, espionage meant spies in suits and dead drops in the park. Now it looks like a delivery driver with a burner phone.

Maria Ressa on “The Mother of All Battles”

Plus: The Internet’s Founder Speaks Out

The Case We Shouldn’t Have Had to Bring

Why three ex-MPs are taking Britain to Europe’s “Supreme Court” to defend our elections

Stories

Starmer’s race to AI-fy public services

What does Labour’s unfettered push for Big Tech and AI in government mean for public services in Britain?