Global Futures
Global Futures is a registered charity associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. Established in 2002, it has published one book (Refusing to be Terrorised: Managing Risk) by LM network associate Frank Furedi[1]. Its registered contact was Ellen Raphael.
Global Futures is registered with the Charity Commission no. 1048565.
Finances
GF's financial summary on the Charity Commission website shows that its spending massively exceeded its income in the years ended 2005 and 2007. In the year ended April 2005 its income was £1,663 and its spending was £25,237. In the year ended April 2007 it spent £20,112 against an income of £681 and the accounts were filed 817 days late. It is unclear how the charity could be spending so much when its income appeared to be so small. Its spending has drastically decreased in the years ended April 2008 and 2009, perhaps coinciding with its apparently dormant role.[2]
Links with Sense About Science
The contact details at Sense about Science of its director, Tracey Brown, were given in October 2002 as: Email tbrown AT senseaboutscience.org, Telephone 01795 537322. The phone number of Sense About Science was also that of Global Futures (see screengrabs, right).[3][4][5][6]
Global Futures called itself "a charitable foundation sponsoring research and publications on new social trends". The only publication on the charity's website was one by Frank Furedi. Furedi, under the alias Frank Richards, was the chief theoretician of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) - a faction that evolved into the publishers of the magazine Living Marxism (later LM). Brown worked with Furedi for a number of years and with Global Futures between its inception in 2002 and its demise in 2005.
According to the Charity Commission, the administrative contact for Global Futures in 2002 was Ellen Raphael who, at the time Sense about Science was established, also worked for Regester Larkin alongside former Monsanto PR man Harry Swan. (Raphael also studied in Frank Furedi's department at the University of Kent, Canterbury.) Raphael has subsequently joined Brown at Sense about Science as Assistant Director. One of Global Futures' two trustees was Philip Roy Mullan, aka Phil Mullan, aka Phil Murphy. Mullan, a central member of the RCP and a regular contributor to LM, is also the registrant of the Spiked website which was set up 3 years ago by the man who headed the RCP, LM's ex-editor Mick Hume. Global Futures' other trustee was Michael Fitzpatrick (aka Mike Freeman), another RCP/LM stalwart. Fitzpatrick is also a trustee of Sense about Science.
Tracey Brown and Frank Furedi have worked with both LM and Spiked and have also both worked with the Institute of Ideas, which has published a book co-authored by Brown: Compensation Crazy. The Institute of Ideas was established by Claire Fox, LM's co-publisher. Like Spiked it arose from the ashes of LM.
As of May 2010 the Global Futures page on the Charity Commission website gives the contact person as Philip Roy Mullan. Trustees are named as Philip Roy Mullan, Gavin Poynter, and Daniel Ben-Ami.[7]
People
- Tracey Brown - director of Sense About Science, shared a phone number with that of Global Futures (see above)
- Ellen Raphael - according to the Charity Commission, she was the administrative contact for Global Futures
Notes
- ↑ About the author, Global Futures website, version of 2002, acc in web archive 2 May 2010
- ↑ Charity Commission, 1048565 - Global Futures: Financial History and summary, acc 2 May 2010
- ↑ George Monbiot, “Invasion of the entryists”, The Guardian, 9 December 2003
- ↑ “Interview with George Monbiot”, LobbyWatch, April 2007; “Profiles - Living Marxism", LobbyWatch, accessed April 2009
- ↑ Sense About Science website contact page, version placed in web archive 29 Oct 2003, acc in web archive 2 May 2010, screengrab here
- ↑ Global Futures contact page, version of 2002, accessed in web archive 2/5/2010, screengrab here
- ↑ Charity Commission, Global Futures Contact and Trustees, acc 2 May 2010, screengrab here
