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• John Hutton
  ...April 2010. He entered the House of Lords on 1 July 2010. <ref> They Work For You [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/peer/lord_hutton_of_furness Lord Hutton ...flatmate of key Blair ally [[Alan Milburn]]. He was secretary of state for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform from June 2007,<ref>BBC News [http://news
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• Institute for the Study of Conflict, extract from The "Terrorism" Industry
  ...as a Western expert. He continued to be cited as a reputable authority in Britain and the United States and was a major speaker at the Jonathan Institute con Crozier was long a regular contributor to Britain's '[[Economist]]' and to the U.S. '[[National Review]]', while taking time
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• Reform
  ...monopoly and extending choice, high quality services can be made available for everyone.’ Their vision is 'of a Britain with 21st Century healthcare, high standards in schools, a modern and effic
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• Malcolm Wicks
  ...st general Election he was appointed Minister for Energy in the Department for Trade and Industry.<ref>Malcolm Wick's [http://www.malcolmwicks.labour.co.u ...e on international energy issues. He was also made a member of the [[Privy Council]].<ref> [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19774777 Labour's Malcolm Wicks dies
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• Dieter Helm
  ...ng on the energy, water, communications and transport sectors primarily in Britain and Europe'. <ref> [http://www.dieterhelm.co.uk/ Dieter Helm CBE], undated, ...a member of the [[Economics Advisory Group]] to the UK Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, alongside [[Lord Stern]] and [[Cameron Hepburn]].<
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• Michael Ledeen
  ...osed upon those in positions to observe high decision-makers clearly works for and not against the operations of the power elite.”<ref>Mills, C. Wright ...d up to the war against Iraq, and has since been active in making the case for the bombing of Iran.
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• Richard Clutterbuck
  ...0s and early 1970s and was closely associated with the St Andrews [[Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence]] set up in 1994. Clutterbuc ...ompanies House on 19 September 1979</ref> and was a member of the Advisory Council at the St Andrews Centre from its inception until his death in 1998. After
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• Deloitte
  ...y 2013 all four firms were criticised by the [[UK Competition Commission]] for being "insufficiently independent" of the City. ...an.co.uk/business/2009/feb/07/tax-gap-avoidance-schemes Gilt-edged profits for profession's 'big four'], Guardian, 7 February 2009</ref>
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• Corporate Social Responsibility the current debate
  ...ed more with “state failure” than a failure on the part of the private business sector [http://www.christian-aid.co.uk/indepth/0401csr], despite the increa ...lpractice or improve the social, environmental and human rights sectors of business performance, as well as on the regulatory role of non-state actors in stand
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• Supermarkets and planning
  ...d in influencing legislation and all kinds of government decisions. It is for this reason that lobbying is of particular use to supermarkets who need the ...e skills they have learned to create favourable public images in the media for large companies and supermarkets.
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• Freedom Association
  ...ght. In its early years it played a prominent role in disrupting campaigns for workers rights and racial equality led by trades unions and anti-apartheid The Freedom Association was founded as the National Association for Freedom on 31 July 1975 by [[William Sidney]], (also known as [[Viscount D
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• BP: Influence/Lobbying
  ...ns. The so called 'carbon club' lead the way in undermining public support for action to curb climate change. ...ound on the WBCSD website {{ref|114}}. Members of BP wear their WBCSD hat, for example at the UN's COP climate summits.
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• BP: Corporate Crimes
  ...the resources of a region China is accused of oppressing over its demands for autonomy from Beijing. ...BP cannot pretend to be ignorant of the genocide . . . that their Chinese business partners and the Chinese government are engaged in both in Tibet and the Su
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• Gerry Hassan
  A response to a celebratory account of this project, authored by Hassan for the Herald, is worth quoting to demonstrate how Hassan's perspective differ ...he story – you may think that there is recognition of “the role of the council as a custodian of the city's civic pride” but unfortunately that may be t
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• Norman Blackwell
  ...sidiary of Lloyds, [[Scottish Widows Group]] Ltd, chairman of the [[Centre for Policy Studies]] and of [[Global Vision]] and an active member of the House ...dies, argued that the Conservatives should be leading the argument that “Britain cannot afford not to cut taxes”. Blackwell states that public spending wi
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• William Weir, 1st Viscount Weir
  ...e Secretary of State for Air in Lloyd George's cabinet and was responsible for combining the naval and army air services into the Royal Air Force.{{ref|We He was made a Knight in 1917. In 1918 he became President of the Air Council and raised to the peerage as [[Baron Weir]]. He was appointed a Privy Couns
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• Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco
  The [[Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco]] (FOREST) was founded in 1979 and descr ...lso argued that restrictions on smoking in public spaces is detrimental to business, especially the restaurant and pub sectors.
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• Shell
  ...f the following three subsidiaries, which are themselves holding companies for further operating subsidiaries: ...Manuel Barroso]], in October 2011. The company wanted the existing formula for linking carbon-cutting goals with binding renewable energy laws scrapped an
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• George Osborne
  ...und manager, [[BlackRock]]. <ref name="BBC BR"> [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38696175 Osborne to join investment giant BlackRock as adviser], ''BBC News Osborne was [[David Cameron]]'s campaign manager for the Conservative leadership. Like Cameron, he was elected in 2001 and becam
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• Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
  ...eign Office''' ('''FO''') and the [[Commonwealth Office]], was responsible for protecting and promoting British interests worldwide. ...the [[BBC World Service]] and the Cultural propaganda outfit the [[British Council]]. The review concluded that the government needed an 'overarching public
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