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Charlie Young

@charlienotold.bsky.social
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Journalist, Researcher: Tech, Power, Human Ecology // Current work @ the Nerve // Author of Spinning Out (Longlisted for Bread & Roses Award) Linktr.ee/CharlieY0ung

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
📌 ICYMI — David Hencke: The Journalist Who Made Us All Better — Mark Conrad tips its hat with love and gratitude to our acclaimed investigative reporter who has died aged 79 of liver cancer
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David Hencke: The Journalist Who Made Us All Better
tips its hat with love and gratitude to our acclaimed investigative reporter who has died aged 79 of liver cancer
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Alarm over ‘extreme’ sentences for anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism
First amendment groups call 50-to-100-year prison terms chilling as legal experts say sentences unusually long
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Johnson is now in the frame for breaching for the same parliamentary rules as Farage by accepting a gift from the same donor. Report for @thenerve.news from me & @charlienotold.bsky.social 2/ www.thenerve.news/p/harborne-r...
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As Farage is investigated … did Boris Johnson also fail to disclose a gift from Christopher Harborne?
Leaked documents reveal a previously undeclared trip made by the former PM with the crypto and defence billionaire to the heart of war-torn Ukraine. Report by Carole Cadwalladr and Charlie Young
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Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info · 28/06/2026
Writing for @thenerve.news, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social‬ and @charlienotold.bsky.social reveal that Farage's sugar daddy has also been feeding ex-PM Boris Johnson - who failed to declare gifts as required. The rot in right-wing British politics clearly rises to the top.
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As Farage is investigated … did Boris Johnson also fail to disclose a gift from Christopher Harborne?
Leaked documents reveal a previously undeclared trip made by the former PM with the crypto and defence billionaire to the heart of war-torn Ukraine. Report by Carole Cadwalladr and Charlie Young
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Pete Marshall @paint-pot-pete.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Fantastic read from @mc00.bsky.social & @charlienotold.bsky.social Great primer on Palantir, their insidious reach and the pushback against them citizensreunited.substack.com/p/the-eye-01...
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The Eye 01: Palantir's bid to run the West
Investigative journalists Max Colbert and Charlie Young launch our new newsletter, The Eye, tracking Big Tech's capture of the state
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 23/05/2026
NEW The Harborne Receipts: Follow the Money Billionaire Christopher Harborne gave millions to Nigel Farage & Boris Johnson & their parties. Then the pro-crypto announcements began. We mapped a timeline of Harborne's £30m political donations and crypto-friendly announcements by Farage & Johnson 1/
Pic of Harborne with headline Farage Johnson and the Crypto King
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
NEW: The Crypto Connection. @thenerve.news brings you…Part 1 of The Harbourne Receipts. A forensic examination of the cryptobillionaire’s donations & Farage’s crypto announcements. And guess what? There’s a pattern. Starting with the now infamous £5m gift. www.thenerve.news/p/investigat... 1/
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Billionaire Christopher Harborne donated millions to Farage and Johnson. Then the pro-crypto announcements began. Is there a connection?
The crypto investor’s £5m gift to Reform’s leader coincided with the party’s new-found advocacy for digital assets – part of a pattern of significant political donations that also included £1m to the ...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
While all eyes are on Farage, we're overlooking something even worse: the building of the very tight and truly vile operation that is Restore Britain. This excellent essay/report by Simon Pearson should wake us up to the threat - and to what exactly it is. simonpearson1.substack.com/p/tory-30
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“Tory 3.0”
The British far right has spent fifty years failing to find a leader who looks like he could run the country. Last Thursday, it did. This is Tory 3.0.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is all happens in 2023. Farage goes apoplectic on GB News about Coutts/Nat West. He is supported by Boris Johnson. GB News owner makes a mint shorting NatWest stock. Boris Johnson offered a GB News slot
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 26/04/2026
For example, Palantir recruited the two most senior AI strategists from the Ministry of Defence & NHS. It has won multimillion £ contracts with both Report by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @tuckerian.bsky.social + @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-r...
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The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials
The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption ri...
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I have signed a letter to the Foreign Secretary about the escalation of deadly Israeli settler violence in the West Bank and Israel’s systematic demolition of Palestinian homes. The letter urges the government to make diplomatic interventions and impose sanctions on Israeli settlements.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X
Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 14/03/2026
NEW MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security. One said: "Ministers clearly have a lack of understanding of Palantir’s technology" Investigation by Charlie Young @charlienotold.bsky.social Report by Charlie Young and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 🧵 1/7
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‘It beggars belief’: 
MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security By Charlie Young and Carole Cadwalladr
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"By killing [Khamenei], the US and Israel didn’t just strike Iran’s government. They struck a spiritual leader with transnational religious authority – and created exactly the kind of martyr that galvanizes movements for generations." - fascinating and important piece by Iran scholar Narges Bajoghli
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By Killing Khamenei, the West Created a Martyr – and Mainstream Media Is Ignoring the Muslim Backlash
Ali Khamenei was not Saddam Hussein or Muammar Gaddafi. Killing him will have religious reverberations throughout the Muslim world for years to come.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Yes, we're live again at the Cockpit Theatre on March 2nd! Joining us: @natashadevon.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @askwilliamblake.bsky.social @mayeroflondon.bsky.social @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Tickets: www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 19/02/2026
I mean look: the wealthiest person in the world is extremely rude and obnoxious; the largest party in the world is far-right; the two most populous countries in the world are autocracies. The bad guys are the System. Opposition to them is transgression.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 19/02/2026
👀 👀 Look how much Reform funding has come from Tory donors! Nerve investigation finds: 🟡 Donors giving to both parties at once 🟡 Tory donors switching to Reform, jacking up amounts 🟡 Reform donors giving to specific Tory MPs… who then defect to Reform By @charlienotold.bsky.social 🧵
Infographic showing Nigel Farage with the headline Follow the money: sources of Reform UK’s declared funding. 81% Ex Conservatives, £29,210,931; 11% Reform leadership, £3,913,919; 8% everyone else, £2,988,902
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I wish it were true that "no one is above the law". But while the City of London acts as laundromat for the world's dirty money, as almost all fraud and waste crime go unprosecuted, as no one has gone to jail for the financial crash or the poisoning of our rivers, this is manifestly untrue.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 18/02/2026
Read the full piece by @charlienotold.bsky.social and subscribe: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-fun...
Infographic showing Nigel Farage with the headline Follow the money: sources of Reform UK’s declared funding. 81% Ex Conservatives, £29,210,931; 11% Reform leadership, £3,913,919; 8% everyone else, £2,988,902
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 18/02/2026
Follow the money: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from Tory donors, we can exclusively reveal The majority of the money behind Farage’s movement was being supplied by Conservative interests even before the defection of so many high-profile figures from the party, writes @charlienotold.bsky.social
Revealed:  80% of Reform’s funding comes from Tory donors. The Nerve. Photograph of Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage (centre) stands with his “shadow cabinet” (l-r): Zia Yusuf, “shadow home secretary,” “shadow chancellor” Robert Jenrick, Richard Tice, “shadow deputy prime minister”, Suella Braverman, “shadow education secretary”, 17 February 2026
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 31/01/2026
What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here Peter Thiel's data company is powering ICE operations in the US. In part 2 of the Nerve’s Palantir series, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social argues that the UK will be next - and we map Thiel’s network🧵 www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
Graphic showing Peter Thiel - chair of Palantir Technologies - and some of the powerful figures in his network including Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Peter Mandelson, Steve Bannon
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🔴 'Domestic Terrorism': ICE Contractor Palantir's Tools for Tracking Dissent Peter Thiel's firm – which has contracts with the UK's NHS and MoD – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE's data platform to conduct mass deportation, @nafeez.bsky.social reports
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‘Domestic Terrorism’: ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent
Peter Thiel’s controversial data firm – which holds contracts with the UK’s NHS and Ministry of Defence – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platform to ...
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Well this seems to have hit home… Worth taking a moment to appreciate human graphic design. Contracts data is boring. The names of government agencies are grey. IT language is dull. Convert it all into a single visual hit? BOOM! Thank you to Lynsey Irvine, the Nerve’s genius creative director. 🙏⚡️
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
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Charlie Young @charlienotold.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
REVEALED: Peter Thiel’s Palantir have over £630m in UK Government contracts. They’re laced through major projects with the NHS, the Home Office, and the Ministry of Defence: including our nuclear weapons program. By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, @mc00.bsky.social and myself for @thenerve.news
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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🔴NEW: I worked w @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Charlie Young on this investigation mapping Palantir's public sector contracts, including previously unreported spend with the Nuclear Propulsion Integrated Project Team (NP-IPT) and AWE Nuclear Security Technologies: www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
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Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
Exclusive: Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gapin...
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 27/01/2026
NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert 🔗⏬
Infographic: Peter Thiel and detail of Palantir’s contracts with UK government departments, agencies and authorities. Where the amount is unknown, the contract has not been included in the overall £672m+ spend. The bulk of the contracts are post 2018, the Olympics contract dates back to 2012 and some work with unreleased dates could be earlier. Design: Lynsey Irvine
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Two things to learn from this. 1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors. 2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
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Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time - Carbon Brief
Nearly 100 UK newspaper editorials opposed climate action in 2025, a record figure that reveals the backlash against net-zero in the right-leaning press
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
RSVP: bit.ly/masscall126 On Saturday, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in front of witnesses. Enough is enough. #NoKings #ICEOUTforGood #AbolishICE
NO KINGS MASS CALL
EYES ON ICE:
DOCUMENT AND RECORD
GET THE TOOLS YOU NEED TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS AS FEDERAL AGENTS TERRORIZE OUR COMMUNITIES.
MONDAY, JANUARY 26 8PM EST / 5PM PST
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The Verge @theverge.com · 25/01/2026
"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?" Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
Verge headline: It doesn't matter if Alex Pretty had a gun
by Sarah Jeong

Photo by Steven Garcia depicts several masked law enforcement agents soaked in red light at night
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Charlie Young @charlienotold.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Unrolled thread on BBC online coverage of the shooting (and false claims about the shooting) skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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Page by Sunder Katwala (sundersays) | @sundersays.bsky.social
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on
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justiceseer.bsky.social @justiceseer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
' #RachelReeves reduced the UK shared prosperity fund for 2025-26 from £1.5b to £900m – a cut of 40%.' Whilst, pumping £13BILLION into the blood-stained,claws of Arms and Bomb-making vultures! #GetTheRedToryWarmongers OUT of OUR misery! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There is a fund to create jobs in the poorest areas, and Labour has quietly gutted it. This is what betrayal looks like | Larry Elliott
It’s a scandal laid bare. A stark new report highlights the price paid in Britain’s former industrial heartlands for this silent piece of ministerial vandalism, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
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Charlie Young @charlienotold.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Netflix and Warner Bros announce a deal. Trump warns of antitrust breach. Then David Ellison, son of Larry Ellison (poss. Trump's closest tech ally), throws an extra $20bn at Warner Bros to try to overpower Netflix, grab WB himself. The Ellison media empire's metastasising at speed. Hegemony, live
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Private water has failed this country. So I’m co-hosting a briefing in Parliament for MPs to make sure they know the truth about why public ownership is the solution. We’ve got just 24 hours to get my colleagues there. Can you help? actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
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'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION
As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...
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