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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) refers to voluntary corporate action that claims to act in the public interest by prioritising social goals rather than being solely profit-driven.1 However, unhealthy commodities industries (tobacco, gambling, alcohol, unhealthy food and beverage) and other socially-harmful industries (e.g. oil and gas, chemical) use CSR to set their own minimum standards for social performance, enabling them…

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for E-Cigarettes was set up in November 2014.333435 It closed down in November 2023.3637 This Group is not related to the APPG on Smoking and Health, which was founded in 1976.38 Background The APPG was set up by Mark Pawsey, Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Rugby, who…

Background – What is the Third Party Technique? The third party technique has been called the “heart of public relations” and has been used for decades by the public relations (PR) industry. For example, in 1991, Merrill Rose, the Executive Vice President of the PR firm Porter/Novelli, advised companies about the technique, which can offer controversial actors a credible voice:…

Creating alliances and front groupsTo mobilize farmers, retailers, advertising agencies, the hospitality industry, grassroots and anti-tax groups with a view to influencing legislation. WHO Definitions of Tobacco Industry Tactics for resisting effective tobacco control, 2009.” A front group is an organisation that purports to represent one agenda while in reality it serves some other party or…

Background Simon Clark, a life-long non-smoker, is the Director of tobacco industry funded group Forest127 128 129 and has been a member of Imperial Tobacco‘s Stakeholder Panel. 130 Clark is an active blogger at Simon Clark – Taking Liberties. He also writes for the Forest website and has previously written for…

Background Matthew Elliot was co-founder and Chief Executive of The TaxPayers’ Alliance, which he set up in 2004 with Andrew Allum and Florence Heath. 160 He also set up Big Brother Watch in 2009. 161 ReferencesHide↑B.B. Geiger, V. Cuzzocrea,…

The Freedom Association (TFA), set up in 1975, is a British libertarian campaign group. Their aim is “to challenge all erosion of civil liberties and campaign in support of individual liberty and freedom of expression”, which has included campaigning against tobacco control measures.162 Campaigned Against the Tobacco Display Ban and Plain Packaging In March 2011 Simon Richards, TFA’s…

This page was archived on 9 September 2020 and is not actively maintained Background David Bowden was Associate Director at the Academy of Ideas (previously termed the Institute of Ideas) until 2016. He is the coordinator of the UK Battle Satellite programme, which organises an annual ‘Battle of Ideas’.173 Bowden co-founded the Academy of Ideas’ Current Affairs Forum.

This page was archived on 22 September 2020 and is not actively maintained Background Patrick Hayes is a reporter for Spiked;176 head of press and promotions at the Institute of Ideas; co-founder, Current Affairs Forum, and Battle of Ideas 2011 organising committee. 177 He is also a columnist for The Free Society.178 The Free…

The Revolving Door is the term used to describe where politicians or civil servants take up jobs as lobbyists or consultants in the area of their former public service. It is also a two-way system where former private sector employees could accept positions in the government where they have the power to regulate the sector they once worked in.