Dominic Whiteman - Revision history

Tom Griffin: added category: Old Amplefordian

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added category: Old Amplefordian

Tom Mills: Wightman CV links fixed

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Wightman CV links fixed

Tom Mills: /* Education and early business ventures */

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Education and early business ventures

Tom Mills: /* Education and early business ventures */

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Education and early business ventures

Tom Mills: /* Education and early business ventures */

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Education and early business ventures

Tom Mills at 11:26, 24 November 2009

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Tom Mills: /* VIGIL operations */

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VIGIL operations

Tom Mills: /* V7 Europe */

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V7 Europe

Tom Mills: /* V7 Europe */

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V7 Europe

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V7 Europe

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 ==Notes==
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 ==Education and early business ventures==
-Dominic Wightman was born on 20 December 1972 to John and Anne Wightman. He was educated at Ryde Hill Preparatory School in Guildford, <ref>Ryde Hill Preparatory School, The Rydes Hill Times... our weekly newsletter keeping parents in touch, [Autumn Term, [http://www.rydeshill.com/media/file/pdf/26_09_08_web.pdf Issue 62, 26 September 2008]</ref> and then Ampleforth College; a boarding school in Yorkshire sometimes referred to as the Catholic Eton, where he says he ‘won a working scholarship to [[Deutsche Bank]] in Berlin.’ <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref> He graduated from the [[London School of Economics]] in 1994 and has claimed he worked at the security firm HART after graduation. <ref>This detail was provided by Wightman in an interview with Tom Mills on 3 March 2009.</ref>
+Dominic Wightman was born on 20 December 1972 to John and Anne Wightman. He was educated at Ryde Hill Preparatory School in Guildford, <ref>Ryde Hill Preparatory School, The Rydes Hill Times... our weekly newsletter keeping parents in touch, [Autumn Term, [http://www.rydeshill.com/media/file/pdf/26_09_08_web.pdf Issue 62, 26 September 2008]</ref> and then Ampleforth College; a boarding school in Yorkshire sometimes referred to as the Catholic Eton, where he says he ‘won a working scholarship to [[Deutsche Bank]] in Berlin.’ <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout3.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref> He graduated from the [[London School of Economics]] in 1994 and has claimed he worked at the security firm HART after graduation. <ref>This detail was provided by Wightman in an interview with Tom Mills on 3 March 2009.</ref>
-Wightman subsequently became involved in a number of short lived advertising and recruitment companies, having spent a period working ‘as a self-employed financial planner and investment broker’ <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref> for the London based financial advisory company Lamensdorf. <ref>James Hester, ‘Test case result could prove taxing for IFAs’, ''Financial Adviser'', 2 August 2001</ref>
+Wightman subsequently became involved in a number of short lived advertising and recruitment companies, having spent a period working ‘as a self-employed financial planner and investment broker’ <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout3.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref> for the London based financial advisory company Lamensdorf. <ref>James Hester, ‘Test case result could prove taxing for IFAs’, ''Financial Adviser'', 2 August 2001</ref>
-On 9 January 1998 Wightman was appointed director and secretary of City Mortgage Desk Ltd. This company gave no information on its ‘Nature of Business’ to Companies House and was struck off and dissolved on 16 November 1999 having filed no accounts or annual returns. A year after joining City Mortgage Desk Ltd, Wightman set up Wightman International Recruitment Ltd, which was incorporated on 22 January 1999 and registered as an advertising company. The company was renamed Radio and Television Sales Ltd in December 2001 and Adrecall Ltd in October 2002. It dissolved via voluntary strike-off on 1 March 2005. Wightman has referred to Wightman International Recruitment Ltd using the acronym WIR Ltd, and described the company as ‘a pan-European recruitment firm with contracts such as [[Eurostar]], [[Nestor Healthcare]] and [[BAA]]’. <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref>
+On 9 January 1998 Wightman was appointed director and secretary of City Mortgage Desk Ltd. This company gave no information on its ‘Nature of Business’ to Companies House and was struck off and dissolved on 16 November 1999 having filed no accounts or annual returns. A year after joining City Mortgage Desk Ltd, Wightman set up Wightman International Recruitment Ltd, which was incorporated on 22 January 1999 and registered as an advertising company. The company was renamed Radio and Television Sales Ltd in December 2001 and Adrecall Ltd in October 2002. It dissolved via voluntary strike-off on 1 March 2005. Wightman has referred to Wightman International Recruitment Ltd using the acronym WIR Ltd, and described the company as ‘a pan-European recruitment firm with contracts such as [[Eurostar]], [[Nestor Healthcare]] and [[BAA]]’. <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout3.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref>
-Wightman has claimed in an online CV that: ‘In May 2000, aged 27, he set up the Viral Advertising Network, specialising in point of sale and interactive advertising - the successful advertising business with clients ranging from Interflora to Carphonewarehouse.’ <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref>
+Wightman has claimed in an online CV that: ‘In May 2000, aged 27, he set up the Viral Advertising Network, specialising in point of sale and interactive advertising - the successful advertising business with clients ranging from Interflora to Carphonewarehouse.’ <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout3.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref>
 Wightman became a director of Viral Advertising Network Ltd on 26 July 2000 – the same day the company was incorporated. He resigned on 30 July 2002. As of 19 November 2009 the company is still active but has filed a proposal to strike off. According to a Shareholder Report by ICC Information Group Ltd dated 28 August 2009, Wightman holds just under half of the company’s shares. Another shareholder in the company is a former Saatchi & Saatchi executive called Richard Humphreys. <ref>ICC Information Group Ltd,
 ICC Shareholder Report on Viral Advertising Network Ltd, 28 August 2009. Accessed via Lexis Nexis.</ref> <ref>For more details on Humphreys see [http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Richard Humprey’s] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref>
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 Wightman collaborated with Richard Humphreys again when he formed NewFinance plc in October 2001. According to a March 2002 press release, Wightman was CEO of NewFinance and Humphreys was Chairman. A CV posted on the company website stated:
-<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Dominic adds a broad and extensive knowledge of the UK financial services market place to Newfinance as well as previous public relations and media experience. His ability to speak four European languages has paved the way for Newfinance's rapid expansion into the continent. <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref></blockquote>
+<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Dominic adds a broad and extensive knowledge of the UK financial services market place to Newfinance as well as previous public relations and media experience. His ability to speak four European languages has paved the way for Newfinance's rapid expansion into the continent. <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout3.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref></blockquote>
 Newfinance appears to have made its money through buying up internet URLs which were seen as potentially lucrative as financial services price comparison websites. According to a March 2002 press release the company then owned ‘over 60 financial services domains in its stable, including www.lifeinsurance.co.uk and www.investments.co.uk’. Its main websites newfinance.co.uk and www.financialservices.co.uk, linked to other websites it had purchased which relating to specific areas of financial services such as credit cards, insurance, student loans and so on. <ref>see [http://web.archive.org/web/20040526021827/http://www.newfinance.co.uk newfinance.co.uk] 26 May 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009</ref> Another individual involved in the company was Barry Summers <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614231709/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout4.htm CV of Barry Summers] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref> who as of 19 November 2009 is still a Managing Director at Financial Services Net Ltd which now appears to own the domains formerly associated with NewFinance plc. <ref>see financialservices.co.uk, [http://www.financialservices.co.uk/corporate/meet-the-team.html Corporate > Meet the Team] [Accessed 19 November 2009]</ref>

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 Wightman subsequently became involved in a number of short lived advertising and recruitment companies, having spent a period working ‘as a self-employed financial planner and investment broker’ <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref> for the London based financial advisory company Lamensdorf. <ref>James Hester, ‘Test case result could prove taxing for IFAs’, ''Financial Adviser'', 2 August 2001</ref>
-On 9 January 1998 Wightman was appointed director and secretary of City Mortgage Desk Ltd. This company gave no information on its ‘Nature of Business’ to Companies House and was struck off and dissolved on 16 November 1999 having filed no accounts or annual returns. A year after joining City Mortgage Desk Ltd, Wightman set up Wightman International Recruitment Ltd, which was incorporated on 22 January 1999 and registered as an advertising company. The company was renamed Radio and Television Sales Ltd in December 2001 and Adrecall Ltd in October 2002. It dissolved via voluntary strike-off on 1 March 2005. Wightman has referred to Wightman International Recruitment Ltd using teh acronym WIR Ltd, and described the company as ‘a pan-European recruitment firm with contracts such as [[Eurostar]], [[Nestor Healthcare]] and [[BAA]]’. <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref>
+On 9 January 1998 Wightman was appointed director and secretary of City Mortgage Desk Ltd. This company gave no information on its ‘Nature of Business’ to Companies House and was struck off and dissolved on 16 November 1999 having filed no accounts or annual returns. A year after joining City Mortgage Desk Ltd, Wightman set up Wightman International Recruitment Ltd, which was incorporated on 22 January 1999 and registered as an advertising company. The company was renamed Radio and Television Sales Ltd in December 2001 and Adrecall Ltd in October 2002. It dissolved via voluntary strike-off on 1 March 2005. Wightman has referred to Wightman International Recruitment Ltd using the acronym WIR Ltd, and described the company as ‘a pan-European recruitment firm with contracts such as [[Eurostar]], [[Nestor Healthcare]] and [[BAA]]’. <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref>
 Wightman has claimed in an online CV that: ‘In May 2000, aged 27, he set up the Viral Advertising Network, specialising in point of sale and interactive advertising - the successful advertising business with clients ranging from Interflora to Carphonewarehouse.’ <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref>

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 Wightman subsequently became involved in a number of short lived advertising and recruitment companies, having spent a period working ‘as a self-employed financial planner and investment broker’ <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref> for the London based financial advisory company Lamensdorf. <ref>James Hester, ‘Test case result could prove taxing for IFAs’, ''Financial Adviser'', 2 August 2001</ref>
-Wightman says he founded a company called WIR Ltd, which he describes as ‘a pan-European recruitment firm with contracts such as [[Eurostar]], [[Nestor Healthcare]] and [[BAA]]’. <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref> However there does not appear to have been any record of this company registered at Companies House at the relevant time. One company of that name was registered under Company Number 05293077 but not until 22 November 2004, whilst another of that name registered under Company Number 01928030 was dissolved on 18 May 1993 <ref>Searches run at [http://direct.companieshouse.gov.uk Companies House Direct] on 19 November 2009</ref> (before Wightman graduated from university).
+On 9 January 1998 Wightman was appointed director and secretary of City Mortgage Desk Ltd. This company gave no information on its ‘Nature of Business’ to Companies House and was struck off and dissolved on 16 November 1999 having filed no accounts or annual returns. A year after joining City Mortgage Desk Ltd, Wightman set up Wightman International Recruitment Ltd, which was incorporated on 22 January 1999 and registered as an advertising company. The company was renamed Radio and Television Sales Ltd in December 2001 and Adrecall Ltd in October 2002. It dissolved via voluntary strike-off on 1 March 2005. Wightman has referred to Wightman International Recruitment Ltd using teh acronym WIR Ltd, and described the company as ‘a pan-European recruitment firm with contracts such as [[Eurostar]], [[Nestor Healthcare]] and [[BAA]]’. <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref>
 Wightman has claimed in an online CV that: ‘In May 2000, aged 27, he set up the Viral Advertising Network, specialising in point of sale and interactive advertising - the successful advertising business with clients ranging from Interflora to Carphonewarehouse.’ <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref>

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 ==Education and early business ventures==
-Wightman was educated at Ampleforth College, a boarding school in Yorkshire sometimes referred to as the Catholic Eton, where he says he ‘won a working scholarship to [[Deutsche Bank]] in Berlin.’ <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref> He graduated from the [[London School of Economics]] in 1994 and has claimed he worked at the security firm HART after graduation. <ref>This detail was provided by Wightman in an interview with Tom Mills on 3 March 2009.</ref>
+Dominic Wightman was born on 20 December 1972 to John and Anne Wightman. He was educated at Ryde Hill Preparatory School in Guildford, <ref>Ryde Hill Preparatory School, The Rydes Hill Times... our weekly newsletter keeping parents in touch, [Autumn Term, [http://www.rydeshill.com/media/file/pdf/26_09_08_web.pdf Issue 62, 26 September 2008]</ref> and then Ampleforth College; a boarding school in Yorkshire sometimes referred to as the Catholic Eton, where he says he ‘won a working scholarship to [[Deutsche Bank]] in Berlin.’ <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref> He graduated from the [[London School of Economics]] in 1994 and has claimed he worked at the security firm HART after graduation. <ref>This detail was provided by Wightman in an interview with Tom Mills on 3 March 2009.</ref>
 Wightman subsequently became involved in a number of short lived advertising and recruitment companies, having spent a period working ‘as a self-employed financial planner and investment broker’ <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040614224127/www.newfinance.co.uk/htm/flyout2.htm CV of Dominic Wightman] from newfinance.co.uk, 14 June 2004. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 19 November 2009.</ref> for the London based financial advisory company Lamensdorf. <ref>James Hester, ‘Test case result could prove taxing for IFAs’, ''Financial Adviser'', 2 August 2001</ref>

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 As of 20 November 2009 V7 Europe’s only activity seem to be four articles published on its website, the most recent being in August 2008. One article/report is by Wightman, and three are by his former collaborator [[Adrian Morgan]]. Morgan, had previously contributed to Wightman's [[Westminster Journal]] but ended his association after Wightman posted attack pieces against the blogger Tim Ireland. He sent a statement to another blogger Richard Bartholomew stating:
-<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Yesterday you placed an “update” to an article, in which you mention that I was listed as “Current Affairs Editor” of [[Westminster Journal]]. I had done nothing in that capacity since August 2008.<p>You will find now that my name has been removed from the “about” page.</p><p>I had nothing to do with the Tim Ireland article/attack, which I repudiate unreservedly. I do not know Tim Ireland and I have no cause to feel animosity towards him.  In future I  will not be asssociated with [[Westminster Journal]] while it is used as a vehicle for character attack and bile. <ref>Richard Bartholomew, '[http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/dominic-wightman-the-story-of-an-encounter]', Bartholomew's Notes on Religion, 14 September 2009</ref></p></blockquote>
+<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Yesterday you placed an “update” to an article, in which you mention that I was listed as “Current Affairs Editor” of [[Westminster Journal]]. I had done nothing in that capacity since August 2008.<p>You will find now that my name has been removed from the “about” page.</p><p>I had nothing to do with the Tim Ireland article/attack, which I repudiate unreservedly. I do not know Tim Ireland and I have no cause to feel animosity towards him.  In future I  will not be asssociated with [[Westminster Journal]] while it is used as a vehicle for character attack and bile. <ref>Richard Bartholomew, '[http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/dominic-wightman-the-story-of-an-encounter Dominic Wightman - the story of an encounter]', Bartholomew's Notes on Religion, 14 September 2009</ref></p></blockquote>
 ==Collaborations==

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 ===VIGIL operations===
 [[Image:Mercer and Whiteman.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Dominic Wightman (left) outside New Scotland Yard with his political mentor the Conservative MP [[Patrick Mercer]]]]
-During the summer of 2006 Wightman [[Glen Jenvey]], and Michael Starkey recorded lectures given over the internet by Omar Bakri Mohammed. By this time Omar Bakri had already left Britain for Beirut amid calls for his prosecution, and had been banned from returning. Nevertheless Wightman and his colleagues recorded over 100 hours of online broadcasts and delivered them to Scotland Yard. John Steele, then the ''Daily Telegraph''’s crime correspondent, photographed Wightman with his boss Patrick Mercer outside New Scotland Yard delivering the recordings. <ref>John Steele, ‘[http://my.telegraph.co.uk/john_steele/blog/2006/10/18/preachers_of_hate_online Preachers of hate online]’, Telegraph.co.uk, 18 October 2006.</ref>
+During the summer of 2006 Wightman [[Glen Jenvey]], and Michael Starkey recorded lectures given over the internet by Omar Bakri Mohammed. By this time Omar Bakri had already left Britain for Beirut amid calls for his prosecution, and had been banned from returning. Nevertheless Wightman and his colleagues recorded over 100 hours of online broadcasts and delivered them to Scotland Yard. John Steele, then the ''Daily Telegraph''’s crime correspondent, photographed Wightman with [[Patrick Mercer]] outside New Scotland Yard delivering the recordings. <ref>John Steele, ‘[http://my.telegraph.co.uk/john_steele/blog/2006/10/18/preachers_of_hate_online Preachers of hate online]’, Telegraph.co.uk, 18 October 2006.</ref>
 On 14 November 2006 the [[BBC]] broadcast parallel stories on ''Newsnight'' and Radio 4’s ''File on 4'' based substantially on Wightman and [[Glen Jenvey|Glen Jenvey’s]] research. ''Newsnight'' reporter Richard Watson referred to ‘radicalisation over the internet, on university campuses and in criminal gangs’ and ‘alarming evidence which reveals how a minority of young British Muslims are being drawn into a life of extremism and crime.’ <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/14_11_06_fo4_islam.pdf Transcript] of “File on 4 - Islamic Radicalisation" broadcast on Tuesday 14th November 2006 2000 - 2040, repeated Sunday 19th November 2006 1700 - 1740</ref> The first section of the ''Newsnight'' programme focused on [[Glen Jenvey|Glen Jenvey’s]] monitoring of Omar Bakri Mohammad’s internet presence, as well as his discovery of an online advert for a protest outside the Old Bailey. <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6140000/newsid_6148500/6148560.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&nol_storyid=6148560&bbcws=1 Video] of 'Banned cleric preaches on web', ''Newsnight'' broadcast 15 November 2006.</ref>

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 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Sometimes think tanks, for libel reasons, won't print reports. V7 is merely a forum where such reports can be put in the public domain, where they can be dissected publicly. You may have noticed - I don't care for English libel laws. <ref>Dominic Wightman, Email to Tom Mills, 18 March 2009</ref> </blockquote>
-As of 20 November 2009 the V7 Europe’s only activity seem to be four articles published on its website, the most recent being in August 2008. One article/report is by Wightman, and three are by his former collaborator [[Adrian Morgan]]. Morgan, had previously contributed to Wightman's [[Westminster Journal]] but ended his association after Wightman posted attack pieces against the blogger Tim Ireland. He sent a statement to another blogger Richard Bartholomew stating:
+As of 20 November 2009 V7 Europe’s only activity seem to be four articles published on its website, the most recent being in August 2008. One article/report is by Wightman, and three are by his former collaborator [[Adrian Morgan]]. Morgan, had previously contributed to Wightman's [[Westminster Journal]] but ended his association after Wightman posted attack pieces against the blogger Tim Ireland. He sent a statement to another blogger Richard Bartholomew stating:
 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Yesterday you placed an “update” to an article, in which you mention that I was listed as “Current Affairs Editor” of [[Westminster Journal]]. I had done nothing in that capacity since August 2008.<p>You will find now that my name has been removed from the “about” page.</p><p>I had nothing to do with the Tim Ireland article/attack, which I repudiate unreservedly. I do not know Tim Ireland and I have no cause to feel animosity towards him.  In future I  will not be asssociated with [[Westminster Journal]] while it is used as a vehicle for character attack and bile. <ref>Richard Bartholomew, '[http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/dominic-wightman-the-story-of-an-encounter]', Bartholomew's Notes on Religion, 14 September 2009</ref></p></blockquote>