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:My wife and I have a company devoted to public affairs, the aim of which is to help clients to find the language appropriate to their concerns and to promote debate of those concerns in the media. [[Japan Tobacco International]] has been our client for the last three years. We have advised JTI on language and arguments and arranged debates, seminars and conferences on risk and freedom, with their declared sponsorship.
 
:My wife and I have a company devoted to public affairs, the aim of which is to help clients to find the language appropriate to their concerns and to promote debate of those concerns in the media. [[Japan Tobacco International]] has been our client for the last three years. We have advised JTI on language and arguments and arranged debates, seminars and conferences on risk and freedom, with their declared sponsorship.
  
We have also published ''[[Risk of Freedom Briefing]]'', circulated to journalists (including some on the ''[[Guardian]]'') the purpose of which is to stimulate debate. This carries my name as editor and JTI's name as sponsor. We have never concealed the relationship, but have tried to make clear we are related to our client not as advocates but as advisers. <ref name="Scruton"/>
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:We have also published ''[[Risk of Freedom Briefing]]'', circulated to journalists (including some on the ''[[Guardian]]'') the purpose of which is to stimulate debate. This carries my name as editor and JTI's name as sponsor. We have never concealed the relationship, but have tried to make clear we are related to our client not as advocates but as advisers. <ref name="Scruton"/>
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The briefing published extracts from the speeches given at successive [[Lanesborough Lunches]] an informal dining club also funded by [[Japan Tobacco International]].<ref>School of Advanced Study, [www.sas.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/about/00-01_AnnualReport.pdf Annual Report 2000/01] </ref> The first lunch speaker was [[Frank Furedi]] of the [[LM network]].<ref></ref> The lunches were cited by lobbyists ??? as a possible
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<ref>Edouard Peter and Michael McKay [http://www.advisio-intl.com/thought/doc/CorporatepositioningPA.pdf Proactive Positioning – a Public Affairs approach] A White Paper Jedco Conseil, © 2005
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==People==
 
==People==
 
Editor: [[Roger Scruton]] | Editorial assistant: [[Sophie Jeffreys]]<ref>Risk of Freedom Briefing [http://web.archive.org/web/20060616140335/riskoffreedom.com/archive.php Archive]</ref>
 
Editor: [[Roger Scruton]] | Editorial assistant: [[Sophie Jeffreys]]<ref>Risk of Freedom Briefing [http://web.archive.org/web/20060616140335/riskoffreedom.com/archive.php Archive]</ref>

Revision as of 10:02, 24 March 2011

Risk of Freedom Briefing, edited by Roger Scruton, funded by Japan Tobacco International. Issue 12, July 2002 showing contributions from Frank Furedi, Mike Fitzpatrick and Bill Durodie of the LM network.

The Risk of Freedom Briefing was a publication edited by conservative activist Roger Scruton between October 1999 and July 2007[1] and funded by Japan Tobacco International.[2]

My wife and I have a company devoted to public affairs, the aim of which is to help clients to find the language appropriate to their concerns and to promote debate of those concerns in the media. Japan Tobacco International has been our client for the last three years. We have advised JTI on language and arguments and arranged debates, seminars and conferences on risk and freedom, with their declared sponsorship.
We have also published Risk of Freedom Briefing, circulated to journalists (including some on the Guardian) the purpose of which is to stimulate debate. This carries my name as editor and JTI's name as sponsor. We have never concealed the relationship, but have tried to make clear we are related to our client not as advocates but as advisers. [2]

The briefing published extracts from the speeches given at successive Lanesborough Lunches an informal dining club also funded by Japan Tobacco International.[3] The first lunch speaker was Frank Furedi of the LM network.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content The lunches were cited by lobbyists ??? as a possible

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People

Editor: Roger Scruton | Editorial assistant: Sophie Jeffreys[5] Amongst those published in the briefing:

Resources

Archive the the briefing: http://web.archive.org/web/20060616140335/riskoffreedom.com/archive.php

Notes

  1. See the holdings in the Internet Archive: The risk of freedom Briefing Archive, retrieved from the Internet Archive of 22 April 2008
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roger Scruton A puff for the Scrutons The Guardian, Monday 28 January 2002 01.33 GMT
  3. School of Advanced Study, [www.sas.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/about/00-01_AnnualReport.pdf Annual Report 2000/01]
  4. Edouard Peter and Michael McKay Proactive Positioning – a Public Affairs approach A White Paper Jedco Conseil, © 2005
  5. Risk of Freedom Briefing Archive
  6. J.R. Lucas ACE: Assess Cost of Error published in The Risk of Freedom Briefing, Issue no.5 October 2000
  7. Bill Durodie The precautionary principle is causing a scare Risk of Freedom Briefing, July 2002.
  8. Norman Barry Capitalism - the threat from within. Risk of Freedom Briefing 22, January 2005