Right, so the former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has joined Palantir. He has gone all-in and signed on as Palantir UK's Senior Vice President no less. What a convenient vacancy to have come up!

The thing is though, since Tom Watson is still a Labour peer, and Palantir as we know is unfortunately very much already in the British public sector, the whole thing would be a nasty enough Labour Party story in and of itself if we just covered that.

But the timing is, as it were, almost poetic: Camden Council’s pension fund is now entangled with Palantir, Camden is in trouble because of its association with Israel, and the Labour candidate to run against Zack Polanski in Holborn and St Pancras is the Camden Council Leader, Sagal Abdi-Wali. So a bad optics news story has now just got so much worse and it’s all collapsing onto that election now. Abdi-Wali has hardly covered herself in glory without Watson’s help though.

She stood right there, in the middle of Camden Council, where the protesters were spelling out an issue which the Labour Party keeps trying to sweep under the carpet and which keeps coming back every time.

Gaza.

Palestine.

Israel.

And now the very pro-Israel Palantir on top.

Four topics the Labour Party would I am sure have loved to keep completely separate, because if they were put together, Zack Polanski's Green Party campaign leaflets will basically be writing themselves

So lets dig into all of this and see where it all comes together then.