The Daily Populous

Sadiq Khan has blocked a £50m Metropolitan police deal with the controversial US tech company Palantir, sparking a bitter row between the London mayor and Scotland Yard.

The mayor’s office said there had been a “clear and serious breach” of procurement rules and said police had only seriously considered one supplier (Palantir).

The deal would have been Palantir’s largest yet in British policing, after others worth £330m and £240m with NHS England and the Ministry of Defence. »

Iran and Oman are actively discussing a permanent security mechanism for the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran is pushing to institutionalize and normalize a transit fee or toll on commercial shipping vessels navigating the narrow waterway.

By engaging Oman, which shares territorial jurisdiction over the Strait, Iran is seeking to build a coalition that validates these tolls under the guise of funding localized maritime security. »

A white supremacist group faces a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by a real estate broker who says she was barred from purchasing property in their rural Arkansas community because of her Jewish ancestry, Black husband and biracial children.

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Michelle Walker, who is also white and Christian, alleges in her complaint that the Return to the Land organization rejected her application because it “is explicitly attempting to establish an all-white community.”. »

The studio believes the game can finally go beyond GoldenEye 007, the Nintendo 64 classic that many fans still see as the best James Bond game ever made.

Patrick Gibson, the actor playing the younger James Bond in the game, also joined the conversation, saying, “Or just the best game ever.”

While it is easy to say you want to create the best James Bond game ever made, actually doing it is the hard part. »