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Welcome to Scotland Portal on [[SpinProfiles:About|Spinprofiles]]—your guide to networks of power, lobbying and deceptive PR.  
 
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Revision as of 23:17, 1 November 2008

Welcome to Spinprofiles

Welcome to Scotland Portal on Spinprofiles—your guide to networks of power, lobbying and deceptive PR.

Since devolution, corporations and business groups have been very active in Scottish politics. This helps explain the emergence of numerous pro-corporate think tanks, lobbyists and corporate/state partnerships across Scottish public life.

Spinprofiles has a policy of strict referencing, and is overseen by an editor and several Associate Portal editors.

Tag and Category Cloud

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Scottish Categories

Categories

Elite Networks and Corporate Power

Think tanks

Corporate lobby groups

Lobbying and PR Industry bodies

Professional and Scientific bodies

Elite Social and networking clubs

Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporations

Economic Consultants

Governing Scotland


Corporate/Government partnerships

Governmental bodies

Regulatory Bodies

Recent Articles on Scotland SpinWatch

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New pages on Spinprofiles

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Popular articles

To see which pages are most read check the list of most popular pages on Spinprofiles. To see the pages which do not exist but are most wanted by Spinprofiles users see the Most Wanted pages. The Priority profiles page lists organisations that Spinprofiles users would like contributors to help with.

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Most Wanted pages

  1. Conservative Party (46 links)
  2. George W. Bush (39 links)
  3. Ronald Reagan (35 links)
  4. General Motors (34 links)
  5. Bill Clinton (33 links)
  6. United Nations (32 links)
  7. AT&T (32 links)
  8. John Major (28 links)
  9. National Security Council (28 links)
  10. The Times (28 links)


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There is an automatically updated page which includes the pages which have been signalled by Spinprofiles users as most wanted. In addition there is a page which includes a list of Things you can do to help.

Or if you would like some other suggestions closer to your interests you could drop Spinprofiles editor, David Miller an email. His address is editor AT spinprofiles.org


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