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Alison Wright's avatar

Your excellent article prompted me to check Susan Michie's registration in Companies House. She has just one, to Unlocking Behaviour Change Community Interest Company, since June 2018 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11434440/officers). This interest is not disclosed on the UCL website, or on the Unlocking Behaviour Change website. This breaches transparency and accountability. Her codirector Professor West has 2 identities registered in Companies House, his other identity holds a directorship to the dissolved Cancer Prevention UK (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09017636/officers), a company which has not produced its final accounts, again breaching transparency, accountability and accuracy. I've asked them to take steps to correct the record and for UCL to assess the impact, if any. I've now just noticed that Cancer Prevention UK has been registered as a company 3 times, with 3 different company registration numbers: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search/companies?q=cancer%20prevention%20UK. This shouldn't have occurred as no two companies are allowed by law to have the same name.

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Ursula Edgington, PhD's avatar

You can add New Zealand to your list of ‘democracies’ under attack from new ‘disinformation’ laws to censor online debate. Our NZ Department of Internal Affairs has recently launched a familiar-sounding ‘Safer Online Services and Media Platforms’ proposal. The Lockstep of this international coup is overwhelming.

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