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See [[Digital Learning Alliance]]
 
See [[Digital Learning Alliance]]
  
==Stevenson==
 
  
Most of these points just need a source and the sourcing is mostly availabe in the docs I will send which you can search by keyword...
 
  
The "Corporate advisor" section
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==note to self==
***Previously advisor and/or member of: Consigna plc, British Sky Broadcasting Group plc (supposedly Murdoch was reluctantly persuaded to accept him as an independent director and recruitment head of BSkyB (Sunday Business 2/5/99)***
 
* <b>Lynn's note</b> - Murdoch may have been reluctant but the bit in the article doesn't express this directly. It says:
 
:'Pearson happened to be a major shareholder in BSkyB but Stevenson got his directorship of Rupert Murdoch's television company entirely independently. Pearson had two representatives on the Sky board: Goldman Sachs' John Thornton persuaded Murdoch to accept Stevenson as an independent director'. I've reworded the article accordingly.
 
  
This Murdoch "supposedly" thing mention needs a reference.
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===Some stuff to come back to later===
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***(Stevenson got this directorship because of Pearson's shareholding in the bank, the Halifax is a Lazard client, but Stevenson was chosen because it was also a client of his SRU)***
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* continue adding info from link: United Nations Environment Programme [http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=127&ArticleID=2076 UNEP and ICC Sponsor Millennium Business Awards for Environmental performance] 5th May 2000.
These statements--that S. got the directorship because of Pearson's shareholding in the bank, and the reason why S. was chosen being that the Halifax(?) was also a client of SRU--need to be supported - <b>Done</b>.
 
  
***(Margaret Thatcher supposedly vetoed his appointment to the Tate but Tim Bell interceded on his behalf),***
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* Add details listed in [[Glover Park Group]] talk page
source? need to support these 2 statements - <b>Done</b>
 
  
The "New Labour connections" section
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===Useful links===
***Having personally funded the 'Stevenson Commission',***
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* Category list is here: http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/Special:Categories
source?
 
<b>Lynn's note</b> unable to find, I've added a 'ref needed' to this bit in his article.  
 
  
***This quickly went on the road to privatisation***
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* creating new pages: http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/Article_Submission
I assume "This" means the info tech in schools? might be good to clarify for tired journos
 
<b>Lynn's note</b> Looks like this refers to the BBC being blocked in providing the service for free, thus it remained in the realms of private industry. But it looks like the BBC was given approval ([http://www.culture.gov.uk/creative/digital_curriculum_response.html DCMS BBC's application for Digital Curriculum]), so still not sure what this means.
 
  
***SRU and Lexington Communications (a Labour-connected lobbyist firm started with money from Stevenson, who is a shareholder) got together an anti-BBC alliance to attack their free digital plans.***
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====external useful links====
source?
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* Public Relations Organisation International lists clients for their affiliated companies
<b>Lynn's note</b> - unable to locate Lexington Comms connection. I've added a 'ref needed' to this part of his article.
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* Businessweek lists board member affiliations... check this out further for others, may prove a useful resource elsewhere.  
 
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http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/relationship.asp?personId=598067&capId=154924&previousCapId=139677&previousTitle=Johnson%20%26%20Johnson
<b> Lynn cont.</b> Source re Stevenson co-founded SRU (but nothing about funding it) Reference - Hirst, C. (2002) 'Telecoms Media Technology: Why the pink queen might turn deep red'. <i>The Independent</i>. 28th July 2002. Accessed 27th September 2008. will see what else I can find before altering page.
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* revolving door info (remember to check refs) http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/politics/revolvingdoor.html
 
 
<b> Lynn cont.</b> Co founded SRU with Peter Wallis (aka Peter York) borrowed 12,000 for start up costs - reference- PATRICK HOSKING. Profile: Master of the low profile; Dennis Stevenson's dazzling ca-reer may soon land him atop GPA. Patrick Hosking reports. The Independent. 5th September 1993. This article implies that he is a shareholder but it isn't explicit. Unable to locate any info explicitly stating him as a shareholder.
 
 
 
<b>I've spend quite a lot of time looking into these bits and feel that I could spend a great deal of more time trying to locate the info. I'll move on to the other areas and come back to it later/ or you can let me know how you'd like me to continue</b>.  
 
 
 
***a committee comprising of financially interested companies***
 
source? can we back this up? <b>Done</b>
 
 
***He has been given a honourable role in the affair***
 
not sure what this means in this context. clarify? <b>Done</b>
 
 
 
***Stevenson forged the deal between the Labour party and BT (Independent 27/9/96)<b>Done</b>. He was supposedly 'recruited' by Blair in 96 "after an approach by Peter Mandelson... who Stevenson met years ago when both were involved in youth movements." (Sunday Times 20/10/96)***<b>Lynn's note</b> can't see this in the paper for that date. Also sentences preceeding these statements need sources. Will explore further.
 
I applaud giving refs like this in the body text, but do we get a 'go-to' ref as well, so that people can consult it online? This is probably what you meant, David, by putting in refs.
 
 
 
***Indeed their connections go right back to the British Youth Council.***
 
source? <b>Lynn's note</b> unable to locate source, nothing in the info sent and a quick google search didn't come up with anything. will investigate further.
 
 
 
***<b>Lynn's note</b> - re para 2 in labour links - Sunday Times 20/10/1996 reference, info quoted not found in the source listed.
 
  
The "More New Labour links" section
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== Lynn's to do list (that never quite got finished)==
***and has provided a great deal of Mandelson connections***
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* Nexis Lexis - [[Trevor Chinn]] up to page 536 to be continued
clarify--not sure what this means <b>Lynn's note</b> unable to locate the source given.
 
  
***Stevenson also pushed through the government's lunatic arts policy (Evening Standard 30/6/98)***
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* I need to read through the Scottish Widows Policy reports (re the links David sent by email 11thFeb) and add anything relevant. All the other relevant info from the other Scottish Widows links are in.  
have to define why it is lunatic--convince us! <b>Lynn's note</b> This info is not to be found in the source given (nor is the rest of the info in this paragraph).
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* I’ll have a look at [[Geoff Mulgan]]’s page for Claire.
  
"Current directorships" section
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===Matthew Freud===
***In March 2005 the Aberdeen Press and Journal reported that Stevenson was £538,000.***
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most of this page is now done. all that remains is the section below which has info that needs source/backed up before including back into the page:
word missing--worth? or paid? <b>Lynn's note</b> This had already been changed in the page. Ref is still needed, unable to locate it so far.
 
  
* <b> some further info to add</b> - [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldreg/reg22.htm Register of Lords interests].  
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He also organised a large party for Young Labour at the World Famous Palace Discotheque in Blackpool at their 1998 Conference. Hosted by Chris Evans (one of Freud's PR clients) it cost £20,000, paid for by Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB.  
also [http://www.sundayherald.com/business/businessnews/display.var.2453771.0.0.php Call to sack HBOS directors: Top economist slams ‘folly’ of bank’s board members]
 
  
* also think that this statement needs substantiated - 'Stevenson is an overseer, parachuting in at the behest of some invisible command'
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Matthew Freud is one of the most powerful PR men in London.  He gave Mandelson PR advice during the secret loan scandal that cost him his job. He donated the use of his West End offices to [[Frank Dobson]]'s campaign for London Mayor (part of 'a long-standing arrangement with the local Party'). Dobson's supporters used the offices as a base to phone round high-profile Labour members.
  
==note to self==
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He also a close friend of Task Force members [[Lord Alli]] (Freud handled the publicity for Lord Alli's Big Breakfast TV programme) and [[James Palumbo]] of the Ministry of Sound. He is also involved with clickmusic, an internet music directory set up by [[Robert Devereux]] and [[Alan McGee]].
  
* [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cf02f3d2-4f5c-11dd-b050-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1 Blow to SFO as probe collapses] By Megan Murphy, Law Courts Correspondent Published: July 11 2008
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He co-owns expensive restaurants like Marco Pierre-White's Quo Vadis and Damian Hirst's Pharmacy. He has shares in Oxygen Holdings, an internet investment company (Elisabeth Murdoch is also an investor). He is a partner in Yoo, a property company, with [[Philippe Starck]] and [[John Hitchcox]] (one of the men behind the Millennium Loft Company). In the brochure for Yoo, he says he has played 'a significant role in redifining the PR industry...to the front-line art form of controlled media manipulation.' He sold Freud Communications in 1994 for £10 million, but stayed on in charge of the company as part of the deal. He has repeatedly said that he wants to be appointed to the House of Lords. Freud Communications' income in 1999 was £6,690,000<ref>available through [http://www.red-star-research.org.uk/subframe5.html search function] on red star research</ref>.
 
 
* [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/drug-firms-bankroll-attacks-on-nhs-947316.html drug-firms-bankroll-attacks-on-nhs]
 
 
 
Nexis Lexis -Chinn up to page 474 to be continued
 
 
 
* Some Israeli PR connections here [http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=491831&fid=1049]
 
* add other British-Jewry influencers from [http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11s18s186&SecId=186&AId=59976&ATypeId=1 JC top list]
 
 
 
===Some stuff to come back to later===
 
* have a look at and add [http://www.auroracomms.com/ aurora] they share name with [[Aurora Russia Ltd]], coincidence?
 
* still to add my pics for Catchpell House and related firms. Then visit Ocean drive for more pics. Recheck the PR firm listed at Sirius's address and take pic of Leith Agency boat. Google maps.
 
* finish [[Cello Plc]] page (still to add clients for MRUK & tidy up). Then add to the link pages.
 
* add to the linked pages for [[Crossan Communications]], the [[Leith Agency]].
 
 
 
* finish going through [[Pfizer]] Lobbying firm connections (also [[GlaxoSmithKline]], [[Abbott Laboratories]], [[Eli Lilly and Company]]) then continue adding lobbying/donations info for pharma firms.  
 
* Add details listed in [[Glover Park Group]] talk page
 
* Public Relations Organisation International lists clients for their affiliated companies - go through them.
 
* revolving door info (remember to check refs) http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/politics/revolvingdoor.html
 
* add pharma details from http://www.opensecrets.org http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/index.asp http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/overview.asp?txtindextype=l http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/search.asp
 
* might be worth doing a Spinprofiles search for Pharma firms not started yet and joining the dots so to speak...
 
 
 
===Useful links===
 
Businessweek lists board member affiliations... check this out further for others, may prove a useful resource elsewhere.
 
http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/relationship.asp?personId=598067&capId=154924&previousCapId=139677&previousTitle=Johnson%20%26%20Johnson
 
 
 
* Category list is here: http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/Special:Categories
 
 
 
* creating new pages: http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/Article_Submission
 
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Latest revision as of 14:14, 17 September 2009

See Digital Learning Alliance


note to self

Some stuff to come back to later

Useful links

external useful links

  • Public Relations Organisation International lists clients for their affiliated companies
  • Businessweek lists board member affiliations... check this out further for others, may prove a useful resource elsewhere.

http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/relationship.asp?personId=598067&capId=154924&previousCapId=139677&previousTitle=Johnson%20%26%20Johnson

Lynn's to do list (that never quite got finished)

  • I need to read through the Scottish Widows Policy reports (re the links David sent by email 11thFeb) and add anything relevant. All the other relevant info from the other Scottish Widows links are in.
  • I’ll have a look at Geoff Mulgan’s page for Claire.

Matthew Freud

most of this page is now done. all that remains is the section below which has info that needs source/backed up before including back into the page:

He also organised a large party for Young Labour at the World Famous Palace Discotheque in Blackpool at their 1998 Conference. Hosted by Chris Evans (one of Freud's PR clients) it cost £20,000, paid for by Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB.

Matthew Freud is one of the most powerful PR men in London. He gave Mandelson PR advice during the secret loan scandal that cost him his job. He donated the use of his West End offices to Frank Dobson's campaign for London Mayor (part of 'a long-standing arrangement with the local Party'). Dobson's supporters used the offices as a base to phone round high-profile Labour members.

He also a close friend of Task Force members Lord Alli (Freud handled the publicity for Lord Alli's Big Breakfast TV programme) and James Palumbo of the Ministry of Sound. He is also involved with clickmusic, an internet music directory set up by Robert Devereux and Alan McGee.

He co-owns expensive restaurants like Marco Pierre-White's Quo Vadis and Damian Hirst's Pharmacy. He has shares in Oxygen Holdings, an internet investment company (Elisabeth Murdoch is also an investor). He is a partner in Yoo, a property company, with Philippe Starck and John Hitchcox (one of the men behind the Millennium Loft Company). In the brochure for Yoo, he says he has played 'a significant role in redifining the PR industry...to the front-line art form of controlled media manipulation.' He sold Freud Communications in 1994 for £10 million, but stayed on in charge of the company as part of the deal. He has repeatedly said that he wants to be appointed to the House of Lords. Freud Communications' income in 1999 was £6,690,000[1].

  1. available through search function on red star research