Talk:Luke Johnson - Revision history

Melissa Jones at 01:50, 1 April 2015

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Lynn Hill at 13:42, 8 October 2007

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Lynn Hill at 10:52, 8 October 2007

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Lynn Hill at 19:57, 7 October 2007

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Billy at 11:01, 15 June 2006

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Billy at 17:45, 14 June 2006

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can't help feeling i'm missing something on old luke here — he must be on something abit more sinister by now.

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−	didn't see the point of the phil kelly note really when the link was there - I think you've got to make the assumption people go to the link and have a quick look – perhaps they don't. But quite a good one this and i think a lot of C4 people might be interested.	+	== look at...===
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	Johnson makes the claim (re the Human Security Report) that capitalism is good for us and that this report provides the proof. haven't had time to look at the report fully, but it might well be that this an is assumption on his part (ie is it explicitly stated in the report). Might be an idea to have a look and draw this out if it's the case.		Johnson makes the claim (re the Human Security Report) that capitalism is good for us and that this report provides the proof. haven't had time to look at the report fully, but it might well be that this an is assumption on his part (ie is it explicitly stated in the report). Might be an idea to have a look and draw this out if it's the case.

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	here Johnson was billed as the writer of ‘the acclaimed [[TaxPayers’ Alliance]] publication, The Bumper Book of Government Waste’, although he merely contributed the introduction.		here Johnson was billed as the writer of ‘the acclaimed [[TaxPayers’ Alliance]] publication, The Bumper Book of Government Waste’, although he merely contributed the introduction.
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		+	Young Johnson's view on his disgraced former employer is that he was "not nearly as wicked as some people like to portray him." <ref>[http://an.newbusiness.co.uk/cgi-bin/showArticle.pl?id=20]</ref>
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		+	===This piece needs tidied up and referenced properly…===
		+	His first job — a spell at TV-AM as an assistant to his old pal [[Jonathan Aitken\|Jonathan (CIA errand-boy) Aitken]] <ref>[http://bss.sfsu.edu/fischer/IR%20360/Readings/Of%20Moles.htm]</ref>.
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		+	===This piece needs sourced (involvement with Sunday Business already included in article===
		+	There was also a brief period as the proprietor of Sunday Business <ref>[http://www.nuj.org.uk/inner.php?docid=236]</ref>, the perennially struggling newspaper. Journalists who worked there remembered his, once again, brusque manner.<ref>Source needed</ref> Months after he arrived, the newspaper was sold again.
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		+	===source needed for this bit…refs quoted unavailable/problematic===
		+	Old Paul Johnson was a member of the [[Committee for a Free World]] which was thought to be an offshoot of the [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]] and its British membership was "as hoary a catalogue of reactionaries as you could wish not to meet".<ref>source needed</ref>:
		+	:"There is Sir [[James Goldsmith]], Professor [[Julius Gould]] (author of the two ISC reports on the 'Marxist infiltration of higher education'), [[Paul Johnson]] (Thatcher-loving former editor of the 'New Statesman'), [[Richard Hoggart]] (recently deposed as chairman of that magazine), [[Robert Moss]] (the CIA's Man in the Media, fanatical anti-communist columnist in the 'Daily Telegraph' and Goldsmith's "Now" contributor to [[Forum World Features]] and the ISC, and council member of the [[Freedom Association]], (formerly of course the NAFF) and his media colleague [[Peregrine Worsthorne]]. Rubbing shoulders with this lot are ...[[Stephen Haseler]], SDA co-founder and co-expellee from the Labour Party [[Douglas Eden]], renegade Labour MPs [[Mike Thomas]] and [[Neville Sandelson]], and, of course, without whom no such list can be complete, [[Frank Chapple]]." <ref>Phil Kelly '[http://www.wcml.org.uk/internat/leveller52.htm An Unholy Alliance]' ''The Leveller'' #52 1981.</ref>
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		+	And the US version was chaired by the young [[Donald H. Rumsfeld]]. <ref> Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_the_Free_World Committee for the Free World]</ref> <b>this source is problematic…alternative source probably required</b>

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 didn't see the point of the phil kelly note really when the link was there - I think you've got to make the assumption people go to the link and have a quick look – perhaps they don't.  But quite a good one this and i think a lot of C4 people might be interested.
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 Ultimately people like Johnson are watched for what they do rather than what they say — such as when he picked up 750,000 shares in insurance group LIMIT which has been the subject of take-over speculation. <ref>[http://www.citywire.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.aspx?VersionID=1487&MenuKey=News.Archive]</ref>

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	didn't see the point of the phil kelly note really when the link was there - I think you've got to make the assumption people go to the link and have a quick look – perhaps they don't. But quite a good one this and i think a lot of C4 people might be interested.		didn't see the point of the phil kelly note really when the link was there - I think you've got to make the assumption people go to the link and have a quick look – perhaps they don't. But quite a good one this and i think a lot of C4 people might be interested.
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		+	Traders and analysts alike were left speechless as Ofcom, the 'regulator' of the media, hailed the entrepreneur's "passion for public service broadcasting". <ref>[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20040128/ai_n9559463]</ref
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		+	===Unable to locate ref to this bit in the source…===
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		+	He also called the head chef a "whinger" at the Belgo Central restaurant in Covent Garden.” <ref>[http://www.mynottinghill.co.uk/nottinghilltv/celebs&gossip-luke-johnson.htm]</ref>
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		+	===This bit needs a ref too…===
		+	Johnson is thought to have fallen out with his former executives at PizzaExpress including [[Hugh Osmond]], his friend from university and the two goad and taunt each other to this day.<ref>Source needed</ref>
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		+	===Removed this from the mysticism bit as it seemed out of context…===
		+	:"Frequently valuations and price movements have been impossible to justify on any sane basis.... As John Maynard Keynes once remarked: "Money is one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological properties which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease."
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		+	===I’ve moved this bit for now, it kind of stood out alone. Also, if we’re including one example of his shares, should we be including others as well?...===
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		+	Ultimately people like Johnson are watched for what they do rather than what they say — such as when he picked up 750,000 shares in insurance group LIMIT which has been the subject of take-over speculation. <ref>[http://www.citywire.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.aspx?VersionID=1487&MenuKey=News.Archive]</ref>

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	can't help feeling i'm missing something on old luke here — he must be on something abit more sinister by now.		can't help feeling i'm missing something on old luke here — he must be on something abit more sinister by now.
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		+	didn't see the point of the phil kelly note really when the link was there - I think you've got to make the assumption people go to the link and have a quick look – perhaps they don't. But quite a good one this and i think a lot of C4 people might be interested.