Kathryn Gyngell - Revision history

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David: /* Education and career */

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 In July 1999 she co-founded a right-wing media monitoring company called [[Minotaur Media Tracking]] with [[David Keighley]], a family friend and formerly director of corporate affairs at [[TV-am]]. <ref>‘[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/916058.stm Former TV-am boss dies]’, BBC News Online, 8 September, 2000</ref> [[Minotaur Media Tracking]] produced a number of reports for the Eurosceptic think-tank [[Global Britain]] and the [[Centre for Policy Studies]]. The great majority of these reports alleged a bias in favour of EU integration in the UK media (particularly the [[BBC]]) and several alleged a broader bias against right-wing politics and the [[Conservative Party]]. The company was co-owned and directed by Gyngell and [[David Keighley|Keighley]]. <ref>Minotaur Media Tracking Ltd, Annual Returns made up to 8 July 2005</ref>
-[[Minotaur Media Tracking]] was dissolved in 2006 and superseded by [[Newswatch]]. Gyngell is listed as one of four team members on the company website, <ref>[[Media:Kathy Gyngell Newswatch Screengrab.JPG|Screengrab]] of Kathy Gyngell's CV. Taken from <http://www.news-watch.co.uk/gyngell.php> on 27 November 2009</ref> but is not listed in its Annual Returns as a director or shareholder. <ref>Companies House, Newswatch UK Ltd Annual Returns, made up to 6 September 2008</ref>
+[[Minotaur Media Tracking]] was dissolved in 2006 and superseded by [[Newswatch]]. Gyngell is listed was one of four team members on the company website, <ref>[[Media:Kathy Gyngell Newswatch Screengrab.JPG|Screengrab]] of Kathy Gyngell's CV. Taken from <http://www.news-watch.co.uk/gyngell.php> on 27 November 2009</ref> but was not listed in its Annual Returns as a director or shareholder. <ref>Companies House, Newswatch UK Ltd Annual Returns, made up to 6 September 2008</ref> [[Newswatch]] filed an application for striking-off on 2 September 2009 and was dissolved on 29 December that year. <ref>Companies House, [http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/ac3e2d9cf523d50611a8950822662918/wcprodorder?ft=1 Newswatch UK Ltd Company Filing History] [Accessed 14 January 2009]</ref>
 Around the same time [[Minotaur Media Tracking]] was dissolved, Gyngell became involved in other political campaigning. In June 2006 the [[Centre for Policy Studies]] published a report on 'inner city youth' which she co-authored with the East London youth worker [[Ray Lewis]]. Gyngell was referred to in the report as, 'the Chairman of the Addiction Working Group of the [[Social Justice Policy Group]]' - the Tory think-tank set up by [[Iain Duncan Smith]]. <ref>Centre for Policy Studies, [http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/CPS_assets/553_ProductPreviewFile.pdf From Latchkey to Leadership - A practical blueprint for channelling the talents of inner city youth]</ref> She was subsequently appointed a research fellow at the [[Centre for Policy Studies]]. <ref>[[Media:Kathy Gyngell Newswatch Screengrab.JPG|Screengrab]] of Kathy Gyngell's CV. Taken from <http://www.news-watch.co.uk/gyngell.php> on 27 November 2009</ref>

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 Around the same time [[Minotaur Media Tracking]] was dissolved, Gyngell became involved in other political campaigning. In June 2006 the [[Centre for Policy Studies]] published a report on 'inner city youth' which she co-authored with the East London youth worker [[Ray Lewis]]. Gyngell was referred to in the report as, 'the Chairman of the Addiction Working Group of the [[Social Justice Policy Group]]' - the Tory think-tank set up by [[Iain Duncan Smith]]. <ref>Centre for Policy Studies, [http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/CPS_assets/553_ProductPreviewFile.pdf From Latchkey to Leadership - A practical blueprint for channelling the talents of inner city youth]</ref> She was subsequently appointed a research fellow at the [[Centre for Policy Studies]]. <ref>[[Media:Kathy Gyngell Newswatch Screengrab.JPG|Screengrab]] of Kathy Gyngell's CV. Taken from <http://www.news-watch.co.uk/gyngell.php> on 27 November 2009</ref>
-Gyngell's co-author on the 'inner city youth' report (''Latchkey to Leadership'') was later appointed an advisor to the Conservative London mayor [[Boris Johnson]], but resigned after it was revealed he had previously been accused of sexual misconduct and financial impropriety involving church parishioners. <ref>Ray Lewis Isabel Oakeshott and Jonathan Oliver, '[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4276484.ece Church and Tories clash over Boris Johnson aide]', ''Sunday Times'', 6 July 2008</ref>
+Gyngell's co-author on the 'inner city youth' report (''Latchkey to Leadership'') was later appointed an advisor to the Conservative London mayor [[Boris Johnson]], but resigned after it was revealed he had previously been accused of sexual misconduct and financial impropriety involving church parishioners when he was a vicar. <ref>Ray Lewis Isabel Oakeshott and Jonathan Oliver, '[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4276484.ece Church and Tories clash over Boris Johnson aide]', ''Sunday Times'', 6 July 2008</ref>
 ==Notes==
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 Around the same time [[Minotaur Media Tracking]] was dissolved, Gyngell became involved in other political campaigning. In June 2006 the [[Centre for Policy Studies]] published a report on 'inner city youth' which she co-authored with the East London youth worker [[Ray Lewis]]. Gyngell was referred to in the report as, 'the Chairman of the Addiction Working Group of the [[Social Justice Policy Group]]' - the Tory think-tank set up by [[Iain Duncan Smith]]. <ref>Centre for Policy Studies, [http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/CPS_assets/553_ProductPreviewFile.pdf From Latchkey to Leadership - A practical blueprint for channelling the talents of inner city youth]</ref> She was subsequently appointed a research fellow at the [[Centre for Policy Studies]]. <ref>[[Media:Kathy Gyngell Newswatch Screengrab.JPG|Screengrab]] of Kathy Gyngell's CV. Taken from <http://www.news-watch.co.uk/gyngell.php> on 27 November 2009</ref>
-Gyngell's co-author on the 'inner city youth' report (''Latchkey to Leadership'') was later appointed an advisor to the Conservative London mayor [[Boris Johnson]], but resigned after it was revealed he had been previously been accused of sexual misconduct and financial impropriety  involving parishioners. <ref>Ray Lewis Isabel Oakeshott and Jonathan Oliver, '[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4276484.ece Church and Tories clash over Boris Johnson aide]', ''Sunday Times'', 6 July 2008</ref>
+Gyngell's co-author on the 'inner city youth' report (''Latchkey to Leadership'') was later appointed an advisor to the Conservative London mayor [[Boris Johnson]], but resigned after it was revealed he had previously been accused of sexual misconduct and financial impropriety involving church parishioners. <ref>Ray Lewis Isabel Oakeshott and Jonathan Oliver, '[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4276484.ece Church and Tories clash over Boris Johnson aide]', ''Sunday Times'', 6 July 2008</ref>
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:Think Tanker]]

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 Around the same time [[Minotaur Media Tracking]] was dissolved, Gyngell became involved in other political campaigning. In June 2006 the [[Centre for Policy Studies]] published a report on 'inner city youth' which she co-authored with the East London youth worker [[Ray Lewis]]. Gyngell was referred to in the report as, 'the Chairman of the Addiction Working Group of the [[Social Justice Policy Group]]' - the Tory think-tank set up by [[Iain Duncan Smith]]. <ref>Centre for Policy Studies, [http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/CPS_assets/553_ProductPreviewFile.pdf From Latchkey to Leadership - A practical blueprint for channelling the talents of inner city youth]</ref> She was subsequently appointed a research fellow at the [[Centre for Policy Studies]]. <ref>[[Media:Kathy Gyngell Newswatch Screengrab.JPG|Screengrab]] of Kathy Gyngell's CV. Taken from <http://www.news-watch.co.uk/gyngell.php> on 27 November 2009</ref>
-Gyngell's co-author on the 'inner city youth' report (''Latchkey to Leadership'') was later appointed an advisor to the Conservative London mayor [[Boris Johnson]], but resigned after it was revealed he had been accused of 'sexual misconduct and financial wheeler-dealing involving parishioners.' <ref>Ray Lewis Isabel Oakeshott and Jonathan Oliver, '[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4276484.ece Church and Tories clash over Boris Johnson aide]', ''Sunday Times'', 6 July 2008</ref>
+Gyngell's co-author on the 'inner city youth' report (''Latchkey to Leadership'') was later appointed an advisor to the Conservative London mayor [[Boris Johnson]], but resigned after it was revealed he had been previously been accused of sexual misconduct and financial impropriety  involving parishioners. <ref>Ray Lewis Isabel Oakeshott and Jonathan Oliver, '[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4276484.ece Church and Tories clash over Boris Johnson aide]', ''Sunday Times'', 6 July 2008</ref>
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:Think Tanker]]

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 Gyngell later worked at the Features and Current Affairs Department at [[LWT]] before being appointed a Features Editor at [[TV-am]]. <ref>Kathy Gyngell & David Keighley, ‘[http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/CPS_assets/124_ProductPreviewFile.pdf Blair's EU-Turn: A case study in BBC partiality]’, 16 September 2004; p.2</ref> In 1986 she married TV-am's managing director [[Bruce Gyngell]]. <ref>'The man who began to get younger at 46', ''Daily Mail'', 25 August 1987</ref>
-After the birth of their second child in the late 1980s, Gyngell left her job at [[TV-am]] to work as a full time mother. She spent several years in Australia and on her return to London co-founded the [[Full Time Mothers Assoc]]iation, to raise consciousness about motherhood as 'a skilled job for intelligent women'. <ref>Ros Coward, 'Women at war', ''Guardian'', 22 March 1993; 'Working parents: how best to meet the children's needs', ''The Times'', 7 February 1997; p.19</ref>
+After the birth of their second child in the late 1980s, Gyngell left her job at [[TV-am]] to work as a full time mother. She spent several years in Australia and on her return to London co-founded the [[Full Time Mothers Association]], to raise consciousness about motherhood as 'a skilled job for intelligent women'. <ref>Ros Coward, 'Women at war', ''Guardian'', 22 March 1993; 'Working parents: how best to meet the children's needs', ''The Times'', 7 February 1997; p.19</ref>
 During the 1990s Gyngell wrote several letters to ''The Times'', mainly relating to parenting and 'family values'. In November 1999 she wrote a letter referring to media attacks on [[Jeffrey Archer]] and [[Michael Ancram]] and complaining that, 'sleaze seems to be real sleaze only if it can be stuck to the Conservative Party.' <ref>'Press and party as arbiters of morality in politics', ''The Times'', 27 November 1999; p.23</ref>

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−	'''Kathryn Julia Gyngell (née Rowan)''' (born 7 April 1950), known as '''Kathy''', is a former ~~media researcher~~ turned right-wing operative. She is the widow of [[Margaret Thatcher\|Thatcher's]] favourite broadcaster [[Bruce Gyngell]]. She is currently a research fellow of the [[Centre for Policy Studies]].	+	[[Image:Kathy Gyngell.jpg\|right\|thumb\|Kathy Gyngell]]
		+	'''Kathryn Julia Gyngell (née Rowan)''' (born 7 April 1950), known as '''Kathy''', is a former television producer turned right-wing operative. She is the widow of [[Margaret Thatcher\|Thatcher's]] favourite broadcaster [[Bruce Gyngell]]. She is currently a research fellow of the [[Centre for Policy Studies]].

	==Education and career==		==Education and career==