Talk:Luke Johnson
can't help feeling i'm missing something on old luke here — he must be on something abit more sinister by now.
didn't see the point of the phil kelly note really when the link was there - I think you've got to make the assumption people go to the link and have a quick look – perhaps they don't. But quite a good one this and i think a lot of C4 people might be interested.
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- 1 Might be a good idea to look at...=
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- 2.1 This page comes up as no longer available (couldn't find it in archives either)…
- 2.2 This bit needs a ref too…
- 2.3 Removed this from the mysticism bit as it seemed out of context…
- 2.4 I’ve moved this bit for now, it kind of stood out alone. Also, if we’re including one example of his shares, should we be including others as well?...
- 2.5 This piece doesn’t appear to be substantiated from the reference (looks like further research is required)…
- 2.6 Removed this bit from section re speaker at the Burgess group, as it is acknowledged in the article that he wrote the foreword (doesn’t imply he wrote the whole book)
Might be a good idea to look at...=
Johnson makes the claim (re the Human Security Report) that capitalism is good for us and that this report provides the proof. haven't had time to look at the report fully, but it might well be that this an is assumption on his part (ie is it explicitly stated in the report). Might be an idea to have a look and draw this out if it's the case.
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Traders and analysts alike were left speechless as Ofcom, the 'regulator' of the media, hailed the entrepreneur's "passion for public service broadcasting". Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
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Johnson is thought to have fallen out with his former executives at PizzaExpress including Hugh Osmond, his friend from university and the two goad and taunt each other to this day.[1]
Removed this from the mysticism bit as it seemed out of context…
- "Frequently valuations and price movements have been impossible to justify on any sane basis.... As John Maynard Keynes once remarked: "Money is one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological properties which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease."
Ultimately people like Johnson are watched for what they do rather than what they say — such as when he picked up 750,000 shares in insurance group LIMIT which has been the subject of take-over speculation. [2]
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How did Mack provide such a statistical wonder? Easy: that which is conveniently designated as 'international terrorism' has been ruled out of the equation. [3] The problems in untangling Afghanistan in the 80s and the trail of US support of the Mujahideen which led to Al-Qaeda can just be ignored. The Human Security Report smacks of propaganda.
Removed this bit from section re speaker at the Burgess group, as it is acknowledged in the article that he wrote the foreword (doesn’t imply he wrote the whole book)
here Johnson was billed as the writer of ‘the acclaimed TaxPayers’ Alliance publication, The Bumper Book of Government Waste’, although he merely contributed the introduction.
