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Darren Murphy

Former Labour spin doctor Darren Murphy, joined political lobbying consultancy firm ACPO Worldwide in 2005. He left ACPO to set up his own agency, Centreground Political Communications in September 2011. David Singleton, APCO's Darren Murphy to start venture with ex-Downing Street colleagues, 29 Sept 2011, accessed 5 Oct 2011 
In 2014 Bell Pottinger Communications bought out Centreground and Murphy was appointed chairman of its subsidiary Bell Pottinger Geopolitical. Daniel Farey-Jones Bell Pottinger swoops on Centreground Political Communications PR Week, 11 June 2014, accessed 16 October 2014 
==Tony Blair's former SPad becomes campaign and lobbying agency owner==
Murphy is a former assistant political secretary and special adviser to former UK prime minister Tony Blair. 
PR Week reported that:
:It is expected that the new operation will not be a straight public affairs outfit but will instead specialise in offering campaigning advice to governments, corporates and NGOs wishing to occupy the political centre ground.
:It is understood Murphy, a loyal Blairite, plans to link up with a number of former colleagues who share his political outlook. A well-placed source said Murphy had spoken to a number of Blairites with campaigning experience about his new venture.
:Murphy confirmed he had left APCO to establish the consultancy but said he was not yet in a position to speak further. 
In 2014, Bell Pottinger Communications bought Centreground Political Communications and Murphy started work at Bell Pottinger.
==Revolving door: joins lobbying firm just two months after leaving government role==
According to his ACPO Worldwide biography in 2005: biography Darren Murphy:
:Mr. "Darren Murphy, director in APCO Worldwide’s London office, provides expertise in crisis communication, strategic communication and government relations as well as a unique insight into health care decision making at the highest level. Mr. Murphy is a former adviser to the Blair government, a position he held from May 1997 to September 2005"
So what happened to the Civil Service Code, which is meant to apply equally to Special Advisors as well as to Civil Servants ?
:Leaving the Civil Service
:26. The Business Appointment rules apply to all civil servants, including Special Advisers, for the first two years after leaving office. The rules are set out in Section 4.3, annexes A and B of the Civil Service Management Code. Decisions on applications submitted by Special Advisers will be taken by the Permanent Secretary. (Civil Service Management Code (92 page .pdf)) 
Darren Murphy appears on the current and the previous 1 June 2005 - 30 November 2005 (30 page .pdf - ACPO is the first alphabetical entry) Register of the Association of Professional Political Consultants i.e. he must have joined ACPO Worldwide less than 2 months after leaving his post as a special adviser.
==Resources==
See: Fracking lobbying firms
*Melissa Jones and Andy Rowell, Access all areas: Westminster's (vast) fracking lobby exposed, 29 April 2015.
==Notes==
Murphy, Darren
Murphy, Darren
Murphy, Darren
Dave Dilegge

Dave Dilegge is Editor-in-Chief of Small Wars Journal and serves as a Director at Small Wars Foundation. He is a retired USMCR Intelligence and Counterintelligence/HUMINT officer, and former USMC civilian intelligence analyst, as well as a defense consultant in the private sector.Small Wars Journal Dave Dilegge. Accessed 29 December 2014.
==Career==
* Director Small Wars Foundation January 2009 – Present
* Warlord Loop - Member - May 2007 – Present. Colonel John Collins (USA Ret.) - open-source e-mail net focused on national security issues.
* Editor in Chief Small Wars Journal February 2005 – Present 
* SAIC Senior Analyst June 2008 – May 2010. US Joint Forces Command Irregular Warfare Center Liaison Officer to US Marine Corps Center for Irregular Warfare
* Hicks and Associates Senior Analyst October 2003 – June 2008 
* SAIC Senior Analyst 2003 – 2008LinkedIn Dave Dilegge. Accessed 30 December 2014.
==Notes==
Dave Nash and Associates

==Background==
Dave Nash and Associates is a project development company founded by former US Rear Admiral Dave Nash.
Nash has been to Iraq before. Working for the U.S. Defense Department, he oversaw billions of dollars in construction and rebuilding projects in Iraq from July 2003 until last September.
After completing that assignment, the retired Navy admiral started working as an executive with BE&K and formed a limited liability corporation, Dave Nash and Associates, with some of the colleagues with whom he worked in Iraq. Nash will be heading to Iraq on behalf of the corporation, and the timing of the trip could be postponed for a month if he is not able to arrange all the meetings he hopes to have with government and business officials.Businessman sees major opportunity in Iraq, Tom Gordon, Birmingham News, 8 July 2005, via Rebuild-Iraq-Expo.com.
==People==
*Dave Nash President
*Catherine Calhoun Vice-President and Executive Director
*Andrew Bearpark Associate
*Lino Carderelli Associate
*Anthony Hunter-Choat Associate
*Lou Martinez Associate
*Marcus Saine Associate
*Dennis Plockmeyer Associate
===Contact===
*Address:Dave Nash and Associates, LLC
1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20036
US
*Phone:202.327.5481
*Fax:202.857.9799
*Website:www.davenash.net
===Notes===
Dave Smeeton

|250px|thumb|right|Dave Smeeton, leader of March for England, Credit: [http://antifascistnetwork.org/2013/03/29/gearing-up-for-march-for-england-brighton-21st-april/ Anti Fascist Network] 
Dave Smeeton is the leader of March for England.Leader is defensive of march, The News, Portsmouth, 26 May 2009.
==External Resources==
*Richard Bartholomew, More on March for England, Bartholomew's Notes on Religion, 22 April 2009.
==Notes==
category:UK
Dave Watts

Dave Watts was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the British Labour Party for St Helens North from 1997 to 2015. They Work For You They Work for You, accessed 23 March 2010
Watts entered Parliament in the May 1997 General election with a majority of 13,962 votes.
Watts announced in January 2015 he would be retiring at the 2015 general election. St Helens Star Dave Watts to stand down as St Helens North MP, 3 January 2015, accessed 22 May 2015. He was succeeded by Conor McGinn, who held the seat for the party. BBC News St Helens North, accessed 22 May 2015.
==All-Party Parliamentary Groups==
As at March 2010 Watts sits on the following All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs): Parliament.UK Register of All-Party Groups, accessed 23 March 2010
*All-Party Parliamentary Group for Funerals and Bereavement
==Voting Record==
*Voted moderately against a transparent Parliament.
*Voted strongly for the Iraq war.
==Notes==
Watts, DaveWatts, Dave Watts, Dave
Davey Kirk

Nigeria Country Manager for Erinys International.
::Davey was commissioned into the British Army (Royal Highland Fusiliers) and has an impressive operational pedigree in dealing with internal security challenges, counter terrorism strategies, security sector reform and covert operations including a Special Forces tour. His military experience also includes appointments as an instructor at the UK's Defence Academy, the Director of NATO's Strategic Operations Centre working for SACEUR General Jim Jones, the Director of the EU's Operational HQs and being responsible for the Army in Scotland. Davey joined Erinys in 2007 and is currently embedded as a senior consultant for an oil and gas major in the Niger Delta.Erinys: Company Overview - Management Profiles, accessed 12 April 2008.
==Affiliations==
*Royal Highland Fusiliers
*Erinys International
==References==
David A. Harris

David A. Harris is the Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee and a co-Chair of UN Watch.
==Affiliations==
*American Jewish Committee - Executive Director
*Council on Foreign Relations - Member
*School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University - Visiting Scholar (2000-2002)
*UN Watch - Co-Chair
==Notes==
# see the AJC website
# see the UN Watch website
Harris, David
David Aaronovitch

David Morris Aaronovitch (born 8 July 1954) is a British journalist who considers himself a liberal but has provided ideological support to US/UK invasions and the so called 'war on terror' more broadly.
=='Lobbying hard for war'==
In February 2003, the Independent columnist Johann Hari (who has since apologised for his pro-war stance Johann Hari, After three years, after 150,000 dead, why I was wrong about Iraq, JohannHari.com, 18 March 2006) identified Aaronovitch as one of a group of centre-left figures 'lobbying hard' for the US/UK invasion of Iraq:
A year ago, the proposals for a second Gulf War seemed very much the brainchild of the American right. The intellectual arguments backing the conflict emerged almost entirely from hard-right US think-tanks and senators. But then, a funny thing happened: a significant portion of the dissident left began to come out, in dribs and drabs, for overthrowing Saddam by force. There is now a considerable school of British centre-left thinkers and commentators who are lobbying hard for war, so that the Iraqi people can be freed: Christopher Hitchens, Nick Cohen, John Lloyd, Julie Burchill, Roger Alton and David Aaronovitch.Johann Hari, ‘Whose side are you on?’, Independent, 25 February 2003
==Notes==
Aaronovitch, David
David Abrahams (lobbyist)

David Abrahams is a lobbyist who used to work for LLM the company at which the 'M' was Jon Mendelsohn, the Labour Party chief fundraiser appointed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. In October 2007 PR Week reported the Abrahams was moving to Ofcom. It also reported that Abrahams had formerly been involved with Labour Friends of Israel but it is unclear if this related to the other David Abrahams, the property developer and New Labour donor.Abrahams quits LLM for Ofcom, PR Week UK 03-Oct-07. 
==Notes==
Abrahams, David
David Alberto

David Alberto is a property developer and co-owner of the firm Avanta.David Alberto, Front: Politics: Whos who: Alliances backers, the Guardian, 10-October-2009 He supplies the Taxpayers' Alliance with office space.Robert Booth, Front: Tax lobbyist does not live in UK, the Guardian, 10-October-2009 He lends financial support to the Taxpayers' Alliance because, he argues 'My bugbear is taxes and the cost of the state and how it has grown,'...'It is wrong to be spending a greater and greater proportion of GDP on central government.'David Alberto, Front: Politics: Whos who: Alliances backers, the Guardian, 10-October-2009
Alberto 'keeps money in a family trust offshore', but argues that 'the bulk of his wealth is held in his UK-registered companies'.David Alberto, Front: Politics: Whos who: Alliances backers, the Guardian, 10-October-2009
==Affiliations==
Taxpayers' Alliance
==Notes==
David Alliance

David Alliance (born 15 June 1932 in Kashan, Iran) was the founder of the textile group Coats Viyella Plc. He stepped down as chairman of Coats in 1999. He is chairman of N Brown Group Plc.Lord Alliance, libdems.org.uk, accessed 4 January 2011.
He became a Liberal Democrat Peer as Lord Alliance in 2004.Lord Alliance, parliament.uk, accessed 4 January 2011.
==Affiliations==
Trustee of the Israel based think tank, the Institute for National Security Studies in 2012Institute for National Security Studies Board of Trustees Accessed 29 July 2012 | Trustee, founder and donor to the Next Century Foundation for Peace which has sponsored dialogue with Hamas | One of the 'British friends' of the Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress'Organization', ICSEP website | Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel, donorDavid Cronin Is UK "friends of Israel" group breaking law on political funding?, Electronic Intifada, 12/19/2011 - 20:23, accessed 31 August 2012 | Director, Alliance Family Foundation Limited | Member, Advisory Board, Community Security Trust | Director, Weizmann Institute Foundation | Member, Board of Governors, Tel Aviv UniversityParliament UK Lord Alliance, accessed 31 August 2012 
===Shareholdings===
*N Brown Group plc (retailing through direct home shopping; fulfilment and financial services)
*Dane Properties Limited (property investment company)
*Caspet Securities Inc (investing in gold exploration)
*Affirmative Finance Limited (money lending)
*IDenta Corp (US OTC market company based in Israel, supplying testing kits for drugs and explosives internationally)
*Huntsworth plc (international public relations)
*Tuxedo Money Solutions Ltd (provider of pre-paid cards as alternative to debit/credit cards)
*Royal Bank of Scotland
*Lloyds TSB
*SPDR Gold Trust
*Bank of America
*Vedanta (mining)
*Persimmon (house building)
*Lupus Capital plc (industrial assets)
*Tau Capital plc (investment in Kazakhstan)
*Bank of Ireland
*Vallar plc (international mining)
*Hatehof (Israeli-based rescue vehicles)
*Metail Limited (3D and digitalised marketing services)
*Anglo-Eastern Trust Limited (financial services & investment; Dubai subsidiaries engaged in telecommunications)
*Mazrek Limited (Israel-based R&D company, specialising in fuel injection systems for diesel engines)
==Notes==
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David Altheide

==Publications==
*Altheide, David and John M Johnson, (1980) Bureaucratic Propaganda, Boston, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon. 
*Altheide, David (1981) Network News: Oversimplified and Underexplained, Washington Journalism Review. 3, 4 May : 28-29. 
*Altheide, David (1982, Three in One News: Network Coverage of Iran, Journalism Quarterly. 59, Autumn : 482-486. 
*Altheide, David (1985) Impact of Format and Ideology on TV News Coverage of Iran, Journalism Quarterly. 62, Summer : 346-351. 
*Altheide, David (1987) Formats for Crises, National Forum. 67, ) Fall : 12-14. 
*Altheide, David (1987) 'Format and symbols in TV coverage of terrorism in the United States and Great Britain', International Studies Quarterly, XXXI, pp. 161-176
==Notes==
Altheide, David
David Alton

David Alton has been a Liberal Democrat Peer as Baron Alton of Liverpool, of Mossley Hill, since 1997.Lord Alton of Liverpool, parliament.uk, 4 January 2011.
He is the director of Liverpool John Moores University. Foundation for Citizenship. Lord Alton of Liverpool, http://www.parliament.uk/, acc 19 March 2012 
==Affiliations==
*All-Party Parliamentary Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief - Vice Chair 'Freedom Declared: Who we are', Freedom Declared website, undated, accessed 6 November 2015 
*One of the founders of the UK House of Commons All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group. According to the Register of Interests, he receives occasional research assistance provided by the Group
*Trustee, Chesterton Institute
*All-Party Parliamentary Group on Egypt - Vice-chairEgypt APPG, www.parliament.uk, accessed 19 November 2015
*All-Party Parliamentary Group for Sudan and South Sudan - Vice-chair Sudan APPG, www.parliament.uk, accessed 18 November 2015
*Board Member, Institute for Religion and Public Policy (Washington DC)
*Trustee, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, North Korea
*Advisory Committee, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
*Foundation Governor, Liverpool Bluecoat School
*Governor, Stonyhurst College
==Notes==
Alton, David Alton
David Anderson (QC)

David Anderson QC is a British lawyer who was the UK government's 'Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation' until early 2017.
==Review into UK's response to the 2017 attacks==
In December 2017 Anderson released his independent review into the UK response to the Westminster, Manchester, London Bridge, and Finsbury Park attacks.
His key recommendations included urging the UK's security officials to get tougher on the rising threat of right-wing extremism and to treat it in the same way as Islamist terror threats. Security authorities should, he wrote, implement an 'equivalence of processes in analysing and dealing with all kinds of terrorism, irrespective of the ideology that inspires them'.
Anderson's 61-page report noted that in the 12 months leading up to October 2017, there were 'instances of attack-planning' from far-right extremists, including 'the construction of viable explosive devices and the acquisition of firearms'. However, he noted that it was difficult to quantify exactly how many attacks had been thwarted 'in part because of uncertainty as to whether a lone actor was actually planning an attack and, if so, whether it would have crossed the threshold from hate crime to terrorism'. 
The murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in June 2016 by far-right extremist Thomas Mair 'exemplified' this threat said Anderson.
Anderson's report was published just five days after US president Donald Trump had retweeted fakeTwitter videos posted by the far-right Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen.Alex Ma, The British government was just told to get tougher on the rising threat of far-right terror, Business Insider 
==External resources==
*Witnesses: David Anderson QC, former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, Home Affairs Committee Tuesday 30 January 2018 Meeting started at 2.44pm, ended 4.18pm
==Contact==
:Twitter:David Anderson QC (@bricksilk) 
==Resources==
==Notes==
(QC) Anderson, David
David Anderson (politician)

David Anderson has been the Labour MP for Blaydon since 2005.Mr David Anderson, www.parliament.uk, accessed 20 August 2013. He was re-elected in 2015 with a majority of 14,227. Chronicle Live Blaydon constituency General Election 2015 results: Full standings, MP and reaction, 8 May 2015, accessed 11 May 2015.
Anderson is a former miner, NUM activist and social care worker. In 2003, he was National President of Unison.About Dave, daveanderson.org.uk, accessed 20 August 2013.
==Contact==
====Parliamentary====
*Address: House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
*Telephone: 020 7219 4348
*Fax: 020 7219 8276
*Email: andersonda@parliament.uk
====Constituency====
*Address: St Cuthbert's Community Hall, Shibdon Road, Blaydon on Tyne, NE21 5PT
*Telephone: 0191 414 2488
====Web & Social media====
*Website: http://www.daveanderson.org.uk
==Affiliations==
*Labour Friends of Iraq
*Kurdistan Region in Iraq All-Party Parliamentary Group - Vice-chair Kurdistan APPG Register Feb 16, www.parliament.uk, accessed 18 February 2016
==Notes==
Anderson, DavidAnderson, David Anderson, David
David Ashton

==Background==
After graduating with a medical sciences degree from the University of St Andrews, Dr Ashton underwent clinical and postgraduate training at the Victoria University of Manchester where he achieved several academic distinctions. He subsequently completed a doctorate in epidemiology and biostatistics at Imperial College School of Medicine, London, where he now holds a senior academic appointment in the Cardiac Medicine Group. Weighttogo
David Ashton,accessed January 6 2009
 
==Biographical Information==
===History===
===Current activities===
Ashton is currently medical Director of Weight to Go a subsidiary of Healthier Weight, an organisation exclusively devoted to the management of overweight and obese patients. Weightogo
About us, accessed January 6 2009.
==Views==
Ashton has cast doubt on the links between food advertising and childhood obesity. In a press release by the The European Association of Communications Agencies (EACA), a Brussels-based organisation represents advertising and media agencies in Europe, Ashton cast doubt on the links between advertising and obesity as stated in the 2003 Food Standards Agency (FSA) report on the role of food promotion in children's diets. EACA
UK Academic challenges FSA Report on Food Promotion to Children,February 3 2004, accessed January 6 2009. 
==Affiliations==
* Member of the Advertising Education Forum, Academic NetworkAdvertising Education Forum AEF Academic Network (AAN), accessed 1 August 2007.
==Publications, Contact, Resources and Notes==	 
===Publications===
Ashton is the author of numerous articles, scientific papers and book chapters. He is the co-author of “Why Exercise ?” (Blackwell 1986) and author of “The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women” (Random House 2000).Weighttogo
David Ashton, accessed January 6 2009
===Contact===	
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===Resources===	 
===Notes===
Ashton, David
Category:Foodspin Scientists
David Astor

David Astor (died 2001) was editor of The Observer and a co-founder of Amnesty International.David Astor, Telegraph, 8 December 2001.
During World War Two, he formed the Europe Study Group to look at the problems of Europe and the prospects for a non-nationalist Germany, according to Stephen Dorril:
::At the core of the group were a number of emigré Germans destined to play a role in the European Movement, such as the future leader writer on the Observer, Richard 'Rix' Lowenthal. Interviewed for recruitment by MI6, Astor was turned down for a full-time post but was subsequently used by MI6 officer Lionel Loewe to establish contact with the German opposition. Employed as the press officer in Lord Mountbatten's Combined Operations Headquarters in London, Astor continued with his group, which drew on the ideas of the Cecil Rhodes-inspired Round Table Group and its belief that 'the British Empire should federate'.MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, by Stephen Dorril, Touchstone, 2002, p.456.
==External resources==
*John Mulholland, Did former Observer editor David Astor save Nelson Mandela's life?, The Observer, 3 December 2011.
==Notes==
Astor, DavidAstor, DavidAstor, David
David Bar-Illan

David Bar-Illan (7 February 1930 — 5 November 2003) was a professional pianist and later executive editor of the Jerusalem Post before becoming the Israeli government spokesman under Benjamin Netanyahu.
==Affiliations==
*One Jerusalem
==References==
*David Bar-Illan profile
*Causley, Charles (November 6, 2003). David Bar-Illan. news.telegraph
David Batchelor

In June 2007 David Batchelor left his position working on EU-US Open Skies negotiations at the European Commission to work for Honeywell as director of government relations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.European Voice, "Movers and Shakers", 07 June 2007.
==Biographical Information==
===History===
===Current activities===
==Views==
==Affiliations==
==Publications, Contact, Resources and Notes==	 
===Publications===
===Contact===	
:Address:
:Phone:
:Email:
:Website: 
==Resources==
*European Voice, "Movers and Shakers", 07 June 2007.
==Notes==
Batchelor, David
Batchelor, David
David Beamer

David Beamer is the co-founder and managing director of Brevia Consulting.
==Career==
Prior to entering consultancy, Beamer was political adviser to the Conservative Party and worked with eight Secretaries of State on a range of policy briefs including Trade & Industry, Energy, Transport, and Health. Brevia Consultancy People, accessed 4 May 2015.
Beamer co-founded Politics Direct with John Arnold and the firm was renamed Brevia Consulting in December 2011. Politics Direct About, accessed 4 May 2015.
==Resources==
See: Fracking lobbying firms
*Melissa Jones and Andy Rowell, Access all areas: Westminster's (vast) fracking lobby exposed, 29 April 2015.
==Notes==
Beamer, DavidBeamer, David Beamer, David
David Bellamy

Was appointed to the position of Managing Director at St James's Place Group in January 2002, having previously fulfilled the role of Group Operations Director. He has worked in the insurance industry since 1973 and joined the Group in April 1991. He was appointed to the board of St. James's Place UK plc in 1993 and to the Board of St. James's Place plc in September 1997. He is a trustee of the St. James's Place Foundation 
== Notes ==
# St James Palace last viewed 01/02/07
David Ben-Gurion

David Ben-Gurion was Prime Minister of Israel from May 1949 to January 1954, and from November 1955 to June 1963.All Prime Ministers of Israel, knesset.gov.il, accessed 25 March 2012.
==Career==
*1905 Joined Poale Zion
*general secretary of the Histadrut
*1935 Head of the Jewish Agency
*1946 Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization
*1948–1954 Leader of Mapai 	
*1955–1963 Leader of Mapai 	
*1965–1968 Leader of Rafi 
*1968–1970 Leader of the National List 
==External resources==
*Shay Hazkani, Catastrophic thinking: Did Ben-Gurion try to rewrite history?, Haaretz, 16 May 2013.
==Notes==
Ben-Gurion, David