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US advisers helped Blair to victory |
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Election Spin Blog
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Sunday, 08 May 2005 |
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Blair was advised by a whole raft of US spin doctors, but unlike the Tories this was kept largely out of the news during the campaign. |
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David Miller - Unspun
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Friday, 06 May 2005 |
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EU Commissioner Siim Kallas has responded to our letter welcoming our intervention in the debate. Kallas notes that 'I trust you will continue to play an active role in the forthcoming debate on the transparency and lobbying issue.' Read the letter here: SK.pdf
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EU transparency needed: Letter to Commissioner Kallas |
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David Miller - Unspun
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Thursday, 05 May 2005 |
Spinwatch has sent an open letter to EU Commissioner Siim Kallas urging him to introduce regulation of lobbyists at the European Commission and to end the privileged access of corporations to EU policy making.
The letter highlights the urgent necessity of regulation of lobbyists and points to the experience of the UK and Scotland in debating lobbying regulation. |
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Vote Big Business, Vote Labour |
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Election Spin Blog
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Monday, 02 May 2005 |
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Spinwatch readers wishing to cast their votes to the best advantage of Big Business may be feeling confused about who to vote for on Thursday. Worry not, Spinwatch presents a guide to the party most favoured by Transnational Corporations. |
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Election spin mostly underground |
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Election Spin Blog
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Monday, 02 May 2005 |
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More evidence that the focus of election spin has moved from the media to less visible direct spin comes from Labour strategists and Weber Shandwick, one of the world's biggest PR companies. |
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LM Watch Blog
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Tuesday, 26 April 2005 |
uliet Tizzard is not the only Furediite embedded in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the government body which, amongst other things, licenses and monitors all human embryo research conducted in the UK.
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Pro-cloning lobbyist helping to regulate cloning! |
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LM Watch Blog
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Tuesday, 26 April 2005 |
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Pro-cloning lobbyist helping to regulate cloning! Hard on the heels of renewed controversy about how LMers are colonising the infrastructure of public communication used by the science and medical establishment, comes news that Juliet Tizzard has become the Policy Manager of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the government body which, amongst other things, licenses and monitors all human embryo research conducted in the UK.
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LM Watch Blog
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Sunday, 24 April 2005 |
LM WATCH is a collaborative effort aimed at tracking the LM network - former members and supporters of Frank Furedi’s Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), plus more recent acolytes.
Although originally a tiny splinter of a Trotskyist subgroup, Furedi and his followers now promote an extreme libertarian ideology and eulogise technologies like nuclear power, genetic engineering and human cloning.
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Fancy voting for a spin doctor? |
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Election Spin Blog
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Monday, 18 April 2005 |
Spin doctors standing as parliamentary candidates are being extremely coy about their spin doctoring past. UK elections are increasingly divorced from the voters and take place in a more or less self referential circuit between politicians, spin doctors and journalists. One facet of this is that spin doctors from both the political and corporate world are increasingly trying to make the transition from manipulating public opinion in the interests of their clients or employers to 'representing' the public.
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Exposed: Tory advisor is ex-tobacco hack and they don't want to discuss it - or even give their name |
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Election Spin Blog
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Monday, 18 April 2005 |
If you see today's SpinWatch article you will see that we are exposing the Tory's election advisor, Mark Textor, as having been a key consultant to the tobacco industry. When SpinWatch phoned up the Tory central office last week to find out what exactly it was that Mark Textor did for the Tories, this was the response.
Now, we know that Michael Howard has new glasses, we know that the Tory manifesto is written in soft hand-writing that is designed to appeal to the voters, and we know that the Tories have told us that they have changed radically from the days of Maggie Thatcher.
So are we witnessing a new dawn, the birth of the ever-so-helpful Tory press-spokesperson?
I don't think so. |
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