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  • Welcome to Scotland Portal on [[Powerbase:About|Powerbase]] - your guide to networks of power, lobbying a ...h as Scotland is that big companies can exert a disproportionate influence on the political system. They have colossal lobbying influence and produce inf
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  • The company grew to be one of the largest independent PR businesses in Scotland and, until a scandal related to the lobbying side ...ack was going to leave us. (Observer transcript 1999: 2). Concern centred on the probity of such an overtly political appointment given the history of s
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  • ...l [[Sourcewatch:Think tanks|think tank]] that proclaims that: "Politically independent, our work bridges thinking and practice to provide innovative and practical In the SCF's policy research work, equality does not feature very highly on the agenda as an aim in itself; at best marked disparities are seen as econ
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  • ...ried member of the PI, joined the PI in May 2003 'to run the institute on a more full-time basis'. He formerly worked for the [[IEA]] in an admin ...cotland". The PI is a multi-issue think-tank that concentrates exclusively on Scotland's economy, public services, environmental and agricultural pol
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  • ...] we get our act together and write a code which will allow us to regulate on our own... There is a golden opportunity for us to influence the CSG. We sh ...ng that the politicians you are dealing with have a lot of people knocking on their door. You need to be clear that they know who you are representing...
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  • ...#39;generous grant' from British Petroleum ([[BP]]). Today, the IFF is independent from the SCF and tries to bring together so-called 'deep thinkers' ...ly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration'. Based on this view of today's world, the IFF seeks to create a new 'paradigm
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  • ...think tank providing a focus for imaginative and innovative policy debate on the key issues facing Scotland.<ref>"[http://www.cspp.org.uk/ Homepage]", C ...January 2009</ref>. As of 2009 Hassan is working with think-tank [[Demos]] on the Scotland 2020 project<ref>"[http://www.demos.co.uk/people/gerryhassan G
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  • According to David Miller in an article on Spinwatch: ...to parties, lobbying, PR, the creation and use of front groups, seemingly independent institutes and apparently enlightened business networks. One such that has
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  • ...ague tables for financial communications consultancies. It advises clients on public affairs, media and investor relations, mergers and acquisitions, com On public affairs, Brunswick says:
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  • '''Aims of Industry''' was founded in 1942 as an independent free enterprise corporate lobby group by business leaders in industry. It c ...n by Aims of Industry to prevent the nationalisation of the sugar industry on behalf of Tate and Lyle]]
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  • ...1672.html Occupiers Spend Millions on Private Army of Security Men], ''The Independent'', March 28, 2004</ref> ...e says that Phoenix-trained personnel are highly sought after and deployed on a wide variety of close protection assignments throughout the world (wherev
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  • ...ement Profiles], accessed 12 April 2008.</ref><ref>Peter Roberts 'Comments on Article and Reasons for Amendment', modified 9 September 10:26, attached to ...iles.asp?Corporate> retrieved from the Internet Archive dated 6 April 2008 on 1 October 2009</ref><ref>Antony Barnett & Patrick Smith, [http://observer.g
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  • Koch is a former official of the [[South African Committee on Genetic Experimentation]] (SAGENE). [[SAGENE]] became South Africa's offici ...Council which is the final decision making body, heavy reliance is placed on the Advisory Committee to furnish expert scientific and technical advice. A
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  • ...rgest biotechnology company and Syngenta directors occupy 3 of the 5 seats on the Syngenta Foundation's board. ...nal Development]] (DFID) where he directly advised UK government ministers on issues like environmental protection and sustainable development.
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  • ..., policies, people and process that drive decisions. We advise our clients on what to say, how to say to it, who to and when." <ref>Bell Pottinger Public ...o the told the [[House of Commons]] Public Administration Select Committee on Lobbying: Access and Influence in Whitehall (PASC) Bell Pottinger Public Af
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  • ...al think-tank the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]] and was spun-off as an independent think-tank in 2000. <ref>Internet Archive, [http://web.archive.org/web/2000 ...ion. <ref>''Tory! Tory! Tory!'', broadcast Friday, 10 August from 2340 BST on BBC Four. See also Brian Wheeler, '[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/
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  • ...ogramme's 'theory of change', however, acknowledges that its success hangs on a number of 'external factors' including: 'local and regional policy and re DfID has financialy supported a network of organisations that are focused on promoting private sector involvement in health and education through: polic
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  • ...has a history of work in the European Parliament on financial services and on biotechnology. He also has direct financial interests in both industries. ...o 'own initiative' reports, one on financial services and one on biotech. On 17 March 2005, he made an additional declaration in the Register of members
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  • ...e [[Battle of Ideas]] events since 2005, where he has appeared every year, on 17 panels as of 10th December 2014, including a number of discussion topics ...). This is confirmed in an article written by [[Don Milligan]], reflecting on his time as a workplace activist, branch organiser and as the party’s typ
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  • ...at 'the Food Standards Agency... is very much an independent agency and an independent voice in government'. 'Putting consumers first' and 'being independent' are, in fact, listed as 2 of the FSA's 3 'guiding principles'. The Agency
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  • ...(born 6 August 1948) is a right-wing British academic considered an expert on 'terrorism' and radicalisation. He is currently head of the [[Buckingham Un ...ured at the [[University of Warwick]] before joining [[Brunel University]] on 1 October 1975. <ref>[[Media:0319-1-.pdf|Letter]] from Brunel University In
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  • ...AF as an education officer <ref>Alan Crawford, 'Rising In The East', ''The Sunday Herald''. 12 January 2003</ref> where he served for six years until 1965 wh ...ll]] and [[Robert A. Dahl]].<ref>As listed on the inside cover of the book on p. 2</ref>
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  • .../tol/life_and_style/article722094.ece Claire and Fiona Fox, sisters]", The Sunday Times, May 28 2006, accessed July 4 2010</ref> ...www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2002-3/weekly/060203/diry.htm Green College], Oxford, on the challenge of adapting science to the mass media.
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  • ...ard’s rotten core: Police failed to address ‘endemic corruption’], ''Independent'', 9 January 2014. ...n Inquiry ignored Met’s bombshell intelligence report], ''Independent on Sunday'', 19 January 2014.
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  • ...llaboration with the [[British Council]] in July 2008. He continues to sit on a six member organising team for this competition alongside [[Mayur Porwal] ...agricultural biotechnology. Engaged with scientific and commercial sectors on strategies to better engage with the debate about GM crops; leading to my p
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  • .... He has also been a speaker at [[Institute of Ideas]] events (for example on Wednesday 14 March 2007)<ref>Institute of Ideas [http://www.instituteofidea ...t], Open University, Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 8 October 2009 on 8 December 2013.</ref>
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  • ..., 30th April 2004, accessed 25th October 2011 </ref> Her research focuses on understanding brain functions and disorders, particularly Parkinson's, deme ...e has also submitted at Blair's request a memorandum for his consideration on Genetics, Science and Risks. She is also a Forum Fellow at the World Econom
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  • ...http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2787/ Mick Hume moves on - new editor for Spiked] Spiked, 29 Jan 2007</ref> In 1988, he became the f According to his biography on the "Communicating the war on terror" conference website:
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  • ...d-with-your-food-1163739.html Why I'm happy to `play God' with your food], Independent, 9 Jun 1998, acc 26 Jun 2010</ref> ...d-with-your-food-1163739.html Why I'm happy to `play God' with your food], Independent, 9 Jun 1998, acc 26 Jun 2010</ref>
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  • ...the UK and abroad); occasional consultant for the [[European Commission]] on telecommunications policy, appointed as expert 1990; co-founder and directo *1990-92: special adviser to [[Gordon Brown]] MP, focusing on trade and industry policy.
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  • The '''Nuffield Council on Bioethics''' says it is an independent body which examines the ethical issues raised by developments in medicine a ...a British Medical Association report calling for an indefinite moratorium on GM crops.
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  • ...tland/aboutus_scotland/pressreleases/2000/jun/yourviews Feed us your views on food safety]", press release, Food Standards Agency, 22 June 2000, accessed ...d agriculture.<ref>"[http://foodethicscouncil.org/node/166 Minority report on hormone food risks]", Food Ethics Council News, 3 July 2006, accessed March
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  • ...r_firm_rankings/independents.htm O'Dwyers PR Daily; 2002 worldwide fees of Independent firms with major US operations], accessed 29.10.03</ref> ...#8217;s it is currently ranked the sixth largest of all PR companies based on 2001 turnover figures.<ref>[http://www.edelman.com/about_us/key_facts/index
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  • ...ional policy on GM crops and foods, and as such was a key adviser to Blair on GM technology. ...r Party, giving Labour its biggest ever single donation in September 1997. On October 3 1997 he was made a life peer by Blair and a year later Minister f
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  • The '''Science Media Centre''' (SMC), based in London, UK calls itself 'an independent venture working to promote the voices, stories and views of the scientific ...-items/485-lord-sainsburys-thought-police-new-media-control-initiative New independent media centre aims to give scientists a voice], ''[[Financial Times]]'', Jan
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  • ...ish newspapers, and regularly in [[The Times]], the [[Independent]], the [[Sunday Telegraph]] and Wall Street Journal Europe. He is a member of the advisory ...ooperative Society: Ideas on the Future of the British Labour Movement and Independent Health Care, A Question of Choice: Public Priorities for Health Care, Schoo
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  • ...an-414683.html Sir Alfred Sherman – Political adviser to Thatcher]’, ''Independent'', 5 September 2006</ref></CENTER>
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  • In their book on the IRD, Lashmar and Oliver note that “the vast IRD enterprise had one so IRD fed information and propaganda on 'communists' within the labour movement through confidential recipients of
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  • ...both subsidiaries of Huntsworth Plc, to form [[Grayling Global]], focused on public affairs, public relations, investor relations and event management.< ...port SQS to ensure that policymakers were informed of the scientific facts on the issue." ([[John McGill]], Grayling, headd of APPC Scotland)
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  • ...dscape of the post-war UK including the [[Economic League]], The [[Council on Foreign Relations]], [[Common Cause]] ...which is so familiar and depressing a part of life in the Labour Party and on the British Left in general.(1) But the view of the Labour Party as origina
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  • ...y.mod.uk/15psyops/] dated 28 July 2006 retrieved from the Internet Archive on 13 November 2009]] ...y.mod.uk/15psyops/] dated 28 July 2006 retrieved from the Internet Archive on 13 November 2009.]]
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  • ...ure and composition of the Earth's surface are actively controlled by life on the planet: in other words, that biological responses tend to regulate the ...iography ''Homage to Gaia'', James Ephraim Lovelock was born in Letchworth on July 26, 1919. He graduated as a chemist from Manchester University in 1941
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  • It describes itself as providing "an integrated service advising on all areas of communication with the global financial community, including f Finsbury's work on EU political & regulatory issues is done via [[Finsbury International Polic
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  • ...ndard'', 9 March 2007, 15 October 2014 </ref> and they were later pictured on holiday together in South Africa in 2008. <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/m :"For the past 20 years Parker has exercised significant influence on the British corporate scene. He has a network of close contacts at the top
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  • ...to former UK Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]]. He was Blair's special adviser on energy and industry and has an association with Labour that goes back to th ...MP as Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary and before that he advised Cook on Health policy. He then moved to become Industry Policy adviser to Tony Blai
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  • On December 5, 2004, The ''Independent on Sunday'' reported: ...203 Reborn: nuclear energy prepares for a second chance], ''Independent on Sunday'', 5 December, 2004.</ref>
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  • ...irt worked as on several ITV current affairs programmes. He was a Producer on ''Nice Time'' 1968–69; Joint Editor of ''World in Action'', 1969–70; Pr From 1972 to 1977, the main presenter on Birt's high brow current affairs programme ''[[Weekend World]]'' was the ne
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  • '''British Energy Group''' (BE) was the UK's largest independent energy generator until 2009 when it was taken over by the mainly French-sta On 24 September 2008, it was announced that EDF Energy had agreed a takeover o
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  • ...w-lord Chadlington: Lord, what a nightmare at the opera", ''Independent on Sunday'', 08 December 1997.</ref> Shandwick became the largest PR firm in the UK.
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  • According to his biography on Broadcasting firm Capel & Land: ...ced [[The Modern Review]]. He is also a columnist for [[The Independent on Sunday]], [[GQ]] magazine and [[Management Today]].
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  • ...and a parliamentary investigation into its blacklist. But the League sold on its blacklist to the construction industry which set up a trade association ...he demise of Industrial training and apprenticeships, . The League focused on campaigning against trade union activism and continued to provide a blackli
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  • ...Supplement'' and the ''Evening Standard'', before becoming editor of the ''Sunday Times''' Insight page and then editor of the ''Evening Standard'' (1976 - 1 ...controversial Millennium Dome - and chairman of the Independent Commission on Local Democracy (1994 - 1995). He is currently a member of the Buildings Bo
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  • At Newgate Nisse led on the agency's fracking industry work with [[Third Energy]] and [[UKOOG]]. ...former City Editor of [http://www.independent.co.uk/ ''The Independent on Sunday''] from 2001 to 2006. A journalist for nearly 20 years, he covered sport,
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  • ...with 84 votes and 0.2% of the vote<ref>Election 1992: The full results The Independent (London) April 11, 1992, SaturdaySECTION: HOME NEWS PAGE; Page 31 </ref>), ...ople attending the debate.<ref>Jackie Brown, PA News 'RACE DEBATE SCRAPPED ON POLICE ADVICE' ''Press Association'', August 22, 1996, Thursday, SECTION: H
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  • ...pg-cni.htm Scottish Parliament website]</ref> It is supposed to be neutral on nuclear power. ...the [[Nuclear Energy APPG]]. <ref>[http://www.sundayherald.com/53711 ''The Sunday Herald'']</ref>
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  • *provide a global forum for sharing knowledge and insight on evolving industry developments ...anisations were [[World Nuclear Association members]], according to a list on the organisation's website.<ref>[http://www.world-nuclear.org/About/members
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  • ...y Authority''' (UKAEA) carries out nuclear fusion power research in the UK on behalf of the government. It is an executive non-departmental public body o ...ghbeam.com/doc/1P2-1983168.html "Analysis: Nuclear haze"],''Independent on Sunday'', 27 November, 2005 (subscription required).</ref>
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  • ...UKAEA]. Niauk.org (2004-07-30). Retrieved on 2011-04-13.</ref> She is also on the board of [[Statoil]]. ...andler]] in 1973, becoming a partner in the organisation in 1978. She went on to hold a number of senior roles in the banking industry.<ref name="Woman's
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  • ...regulation and Health. Associate [[George Hall]] was also EU issue manager on eCommerce in the [[Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue]]. ...ssociate Director. Adviser to [[Alistair Darling]] MP for 12 years, worked on the [[Council of Economic Advisers]] at [[HM Treasury]], the [[Department f
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  • Described in ''PR Week'' as a “thrusting public affairs agency on the cutting edge of politics and lobbying , WSPA has absorbed many other lo ...ce-chairman of Weber Shandwick in 2003 a position he left in November 2004 on his appointment as Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords. <
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  • ...y'' in August 2013 Miller 'described the [[SNP]]’s current energy policy on producing 100 per cent of Scotland’s needs from renewables as “disastro Sir Donald said an independent Scotland could find itself in the same position as Denmark, which produces
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  • A brief biography on the NIA's website<ref>[http://www.niauk.org/keith-parker.html Keith Parker *1980s: worked in the [[Department of Energy]] on the public inquiries into Sizewell B and Hinkley Point C.
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  • ...zine is to humanise the EU&#39;s activities and demystify its work...focus on the people who wield the real power in Europe make understanding how the EU ...e Union&#39;s institutions in context, examining how the different players on the EU stage - from politicians and policy-makers to lobbyists and non-gove
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  • ...ether its corporate members and academics to advise the Executive Director on programme development and research topics. ...ess of governing Europe. It teaches introductory and specialist programmes on public affairs practice in the Union's institutions. ECPA Government Traini
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  • ...ing professor at [[Imperial College]], London and a non-executive director on the board of the UK [[Health and Safety Laboratory]]. She also chaired the ...term advocate of nuclear power. "I got a prize at O-level and chose a book on nuclear power. I've always seen it as a high-tech, forward-looking industry
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  • ...Representative Don Edwards of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights. {{ref|90}} ...Next Target in Africa," which claimed that British and American insistence on including the guerrillas in a Rhodesian settlement package was a "prescript
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  • ...a separate article on the history of the BAP, also see the current profile on [[BAP]]) ...Portfolio having a roving brief to monitor, coordinate and brief the press on all areas of government activity and Symons, the former leader of the union
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  • ...e former Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK government, Dame [[Sue Ion]], Independent Consultant, Professor [[Simon Biggs]] FREng Professor of Particle Science & ...aid. “It’s a bit like an airline running an ad that says ‘If you fly on one of our aircraft, there’s a very good chance the wings won’t fall of
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  • ...nt on their side. Lobbying companies today have access to extensive files on politicians and other influential people, this way they know who best to ap ...een reported that Lord Sainsbury lobbied the government to soften its line on supermarket development. More of these examples will be discussed below.
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  • ...e and B2B PR, public affairs and sponsorship exploitation. Big brands rely on us because we consistently solve their communications dilemmas in a pragmat The Sunday Times heralded us as a Top 50 Best Small Company To Work For
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  • ...nformation that is helpful when responding to the Media, in their dealings on Campus or in the work place, and in any other sphere where having credible, ...Honestreporting.com, until it reached over 50,000 activists and became an independent organization<ref>Media QWatch International, [http://www.mwio.org/about_us.
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  • ...plc, non-executive Chairman of [[SmartStream Technologies Group]], Senior Independent Director of [[Slough Estates]] plc, a non-executive with The [[Corporate Se ...etters to the Financial Times, and to the Daily Telegraph. These picked up on Blackwell's slogan that Britain "cannot afford not to cut taxes - and to di
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  • ...into the consequences of tobacco use which have proven the negative impact on health. ARISE follows up their claims with criticism of such health informa ...the fact that the public were misled into believing research was based on independent medical inquiry.
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  • ...f the right-wing think-tank [[Policy Exchange]] which has been influential on [[Conservative Party]] policy. Gove was born in Edinburgh on 26 August 1967, the son of Ernest and Christine Gove. <ref>‘[http://www.u
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  • ...e-of-tory-right-667331.html Five more names go in purge of Tory right]', ''Independent'', 29 August 2001</ref> which mirrored the pledge made in the Conservative ...to do with the organisation unless it stopped making "distasteful" remarks on race and immigration <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1978846.s
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  • ...e Bank]], [[Eastwest Airlines Australia]] and [[ICL Australia]]. Also sits on the board of director for the [[Bank of Queensland]] and is a non-executive ...nute.com]], [[PROfounders Capital]], [[mydeco.com]] and [[made.com]]. Sits on the board of [[easyCar.com]] and [[Shazam]]. Joined the board in January 20
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  • ...s and publishes public policy proposals and arranges seminars and lectures on topical policy issues, as part of its mission to influence policy around th ...l-time director was [[Alfred Sherman]], who had started his political life on the extreme left. Keith Joseph, who was head of policy at the [[Conservativ
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  • ..., 1997</ref> as a smokescreen.<ref> Who are the Illuminati? Independent on Sunday (London) November 6, 2005</ref> According to her, their international subv ...ters/WSC/WSCwrote1920.html This movement among the Jews.. Quote] Retrieved on April 13 2007</ref>
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  • ::::[[Douglas Smith]], political lobbyist, Sunday Times, October 1983 ...Government work'.[2] Fees range from £2,500 to £5,000 a month, depending on the type of service required.[3] The average annual rate is about £30,000.
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  • ...refusal to publish the rules is a measure of the sensitivity of ministers on the subject of their retaining any form of commercial stake. When an MP bec ...oseph Chamberlain]] was Colonial Secretary when the government adjudicated on the amount of compensation due to share-holders of the Royal Niger Company.
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  • ...nk. Today, the company has shed most of its food interests to concentrate on alcohol, acquiring new spirit brands. It projects an image of itself as a c *undermining small-scale and independent alcohol production, both in the UK and in East Africa (see [[Diageo: Corpor
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  • ...to moderate drinkers.<ref>World Health Organisation, Global Status Report on Alcohol Policy, ibid.</ref>{{Template:alcohol badge}} ...ttp://www.camra.org.uk/SHWebClass.asp?WCI=ShowCat&CatId=221 Save Britain's Independent Brewers' campaign], - viewed 10.02.2005 (Unsuccessfully accessed: 22 Septe
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  • ...fe following the best British tradition dating from the 16th century as an independent intelligence operator working informally but effectively for and within the ...t yet another book on Scotland, is one of those people who knows everyone, on both sides of the Atlantic," in 1995. (MacLean died of a heart attack in 19
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  • ...and earned the ire of the left’s wishful thinkers, The Independent on Sunday, 9-May-2010</ref> According to a BBC report on the 2003 Labour Party conference in Bournemouth: 'Willie Sullivan, from Dun
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  • ...nsultants prefer reporting informally on an ad hoc basis and are available on call. They also write strategic briefing documents for clients. ...by companies is now huge. And that is the primary reason for putting an MP on your board.'{{ref|[5]}}
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  • ....<ref>Gavin Esler, Different lessons that the Gulf war taught, Scotland on Sunday, 11 October 2002.</ref> ...Affairs Committee]]. He is Chairman of the [[All-Party Parliamentary Group on Entrepreneurship]].
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  • ...quity and Law]] in their investment department. Philip is published widely on numerous financial matters, ranging from social insurance, actuarial scienc ...ow of the [[Globalisation Institute]], a newly launched thinktank focusing on free trade and international development, with particular reference to ente
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  • ...expertise include: health, planning and development, defence and security, independent schools, and heritage tourism. *Political Campaigning: 'We have run numerous high profile campaigns on behalf of clients from across the private, public and voluntary sectors as
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  • He visits all of his major operations on a regular basis and continues to find synergies between them. Any of his bu ...mited, the business he inherited, into present day Newscorp were dependent on such things'2
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  • ...and lobbying group advocating "lower taxes and reformed public services". On 19 September 2007, the [[Hayek Society]], a LSE right-wing group, circulate ...can be understood to be an extension of the Eurosceptic element within and on the right of the [[Conservative Party]]; there are also links between the T
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  • As has been noted in ''Private Eye'', Maclay, worked on [[Weekend World]] at [[London Weekend Television]] (LWT) under [[John Birt] ...nt.co.uk/news/people/appointments-1482603.html Appointments in 1993] ''The Independent'', 3 July 1993, accessed 23 September 2014 </ref> Maclay then joined [[Carl
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  • ...at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests focus on the comparative development of the modern state and the long historical roo ...ectric Company]] (ultimately chairman of [[GEC International]]) as well as on the boards of other US and European corporations.
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  • Boles's biography on the [[Policy Exchange]] website in 2001 stated: Boles states on his official website that before setting up his DIY business he 'worked for
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  • ...decisions. It was also alleged that he was able to have an undue influence on Government decisions. The revelations were made by an ''[[The Observer|Obse ...n-insiders-guide-446246.html The Labour machine: an insiders' guide]", The Independent, 26 April 2007, accessed March 2009.</ref>
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  • ...-top-gun-422925.html Lord Drayson - Britain's top gun]The ''Independent on Sunday'' 5 November 2006</ref> is a British businessman, amateur racing driver and ...<ref name="Winnett">Robert Winnett 'Minister put millions in tax haven', ''Sunday Times'' (London) May 15, 2005, Home news; News; 1</ref> His remit included
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