This is what democratic hollowing looks like. A silent coup. No rupture. Just substantive decision making migrating into private infrastructure, while democratic process runs on top of it as theatre, producing the appearance of accountability without the substance.

Cascando 2026 – 50 x 40cm, acrylic, spray paint on canvas Not diminishing. Cascading toward, forms pressing against each other, colour finding its own level, the surface becoming so inhabited that no single element can claim priority over any other.

Deregulated SEZs breed impacts that contain significant losses in public autonomy over economic, environmental, and social governance, with concerns about transparency, equity, and democratic control being paramount.

Palantir's own X thread exposes the game. Pursuing European tech alternatives is "techno-politicization" serving your adversary. Sovereignty means buying Palantir. Not buying Palantir undermines sovereignty. Read that twice.

Palantir has a £750m MoD contract, part of a £1.5bn "strategic partnership". 35 contracts in total with the UK Proprietary AI in Britain's military core. No viable exit. Karp called Europe "stagnant" in the same breath he praised post-Brexit Britain.

THE STARMER / BURNHAM COMPARISON Starmer’s complicity is structural and visible: BlackRock formally embedded in 3 UK freeports, the partnership announced in Nov 2024. Burnham’s is more insidious it is wrapped in socialist branding, buses, the northern voice, the anti-Thatcherite rhetoric. Thread

All day and night 2026 – 65 x 50cm, acrylic on canvas Roots coming through, pushing across borders, the personal is political. It doesn’t stop. Not for darkness, not for the hour when everything is supposed to be still. www.davidpowell.nl

Simply someone, anyone, who once saw you 2026 – 65 x 50cm, acrylic on canvas To have been seen. Not known, not understood, not remembered with any accuracy, just seen, once, by someone who was passing and happened to look. davidpowell.nl/category/pai...

As our Govts turn a blind eye to the wanton destruction of civilisations in the expansionist project of Greater Israel, they are taking cash, political influence, sovereign capture, supplying Israel with weapons components, and calling what they are unleashing justifiable 'acts of self-defence'

With me someone there with me 2026 – 30 x 24cm, acrylic on canvas. These flowers don’t wilt, they burn. They exist in the gap between witness and contact, between someone there and someone truly there. The reassurance has to keep being made because it keeps being threatened.

The Labour Party must not only be disbanded, but they must face criminal charges, and be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The Labour Party have actively been spying on UK journalists who dared to expose their unlawful conduct. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OCl...

Less light a little less hid by day 2026 – 66 x 51cm, oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas

Speaking of how it was before 2026 – 40 x 30cm, acrylic, spray paint on canvas The title is from Beckett, the retrospective construction that mirrors its companion, Speaking of How It Will Be After 2026. davidpowell.nl/speaking-of-... Painting as a laboratory, the generic logic of managed enclosure.

A few images on and off 2026 – 50 x 40cm, acrylic, spray paint on canvas

The day comes we come to the day 2026 – 170 x 136cm, oil and acrylic on canvas My latest flower painting. The day is arriving from below, not yet here, displacing the night that occupies the lower zones of the canvas with the patience of something that has been there longest and knows it will remain

Never forget what Israel has done and continues to do in full view of the entire world. Each back the way he came 2026 – 24 x 18cm, acrylic, pencil on canvas

To beguile a moment of this vast season 2026 - 200x145cm, oil, acrylic on canvas The title comes from Beckett's novel How It Is, it holds the intimate and the cosmic in the same breath without allowing either to dominate. I will be showing paintings from this series at my Belgian gallery this year

If you think 'Sov Corps' are not happening in the UK, think again. Starmer tweeted that the UK Govt was in an official Govt partnership with Blackrock, who just happen to be the most criminally corrupt shadow bank in the world. europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-neorea...

Once wasn’t enough for you 2026 – 18 x 24cm, acrylic, spray paint on canvas I will be showing new flower paintings in my Belgian gallery, dates to be confirmed soon. www.sabinewachters.com

The gauntlet of tulips 2026 – 29 x 42cm, pencil, acrylic, watercolour, spray paint on paper This series began in 2013 when I started to erase human beings from my paintings, replacing them with flowers.

Israel’s murderous rampage across the Middle East will only accelerate because the majority of our government leaders are too corrupted to call it out. The journalists who dedicated their lives exposing the Zionist regimes heinous acts must never be forgotten.

Refugees 2013 – 200 x 140cm, oil and acrylic on canvas Room once full of sounds 2024 – 175 x 120cm, oil on canvas I will be showing flower paintings at my Belgian gallery this year

So this article from the latest Private Eye states that Teesside Freeport is going to close down. I have said all along that free zones are Ponzi schemes for the asset classes in rip-off Britain. Thread

Look at this photo. Luke Akehurst, Matt Pound, and Marlon Solomon are all wearing matching T-shirts that read "I'm literally a Zionist Shitlord" In what world is this acceptable behaviour from Labour Party MPs?

For Steve Reed to conflate anti-semitism with far-right Zionist supremacism, and to further use that conflation as a protracted attack on the left is obscene; Reed should not be using this kind of hate filled divisive language, as it clearly tears up the codes of conduct set out by Parliament.

Today I received a response to my FOI request to the Cabinet Office about a £735,000 contract awarded to Palantir Technologies in 2015, with no competitive tender, for what was described as an "enterprise analytical platform and intelligence service" for Brexit preparations. Thread

Yes. It’s to do with regulatory divergence where the EU prohibits State aid from being exploited as profit motive for corporations. This creates an unlevel playing field that distorts the EU’s Single Market.

Keir Starmer just got completely humiliated by Trump Wow, that special relationship is really something to behold. It doesn't matter how much you cower and obey Trump; he will always cast you aside once your use value has petered out

The thick impasto mimics the bureaucratic layering of institutional life: policies, budgets, maintenance schedules, the accumulated material of public provision. Then the scraping: funding cuts, staff reductions, the slow withdrawal of resources that leaves structures brittle and compromised.