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.
I've posted my letter of complaint regarding these two, on my Substack page. I have just finished an article that attempts to summarise the problem. Since I've been working alone on this, except for some input from ChatGPT, my letters are limited by my knowledge. So, I'd welcome others to investigate this and publish their findings. Advice on how to get the message across would be appreciated. (Beware: ChatGPT is of limited help, when it comes to the law, as it holds a corrupted version of the Companies Act 2006.)
Thank you. I'd be pleased if you would consider it for Propaganda in Focus. My complaints to the Commissioners for Standards, Lords and Parliamentary, have had mixed results. The Lords' CfS has done 3 investigations. He considers the multiple identities to be outside his remit but he did follow up on the failure to declare interests. Lord Fink made some adjustments, however, Baroness Smith and Lord Kennedy acknowledged that for "clarity" they should only have one identity and have taken steps to deduplicate their synthetic identities. The reports are near the top of the list available here: https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-financial-interests/house-of-lords-commissioner-for-standards-/house-of-lords-commissioner-for-standards-/reports-on-complaints/. Synthetic identities corrupting audits and due diligence puts us at risk of money-laundering and terrorism financing, as these are the laws that they are circumventing with their multiple identities. The Parliamentary CfS has been weaker than the Lords CfS, and the Parliamentary Standards are weaker than the Lords'. For example, Rishi Sunak didn't have to declare Akshata Murty's directorship of N&L Acquisitions, nor that he is currently a person with significant control of C&UCO Properties Limited, when he would have had to do so under the Lords' code of conduct. Note that Rishi Sunak has 3 identities, one with a false date of birth and Akshata Murty has 2 identities, one with a false date of birth. I've been pushing the Judicial Appointments Commission for a judicial judgement on whether holding multiple identities by providing different details to Companies House is evidence of fraud by false representation (section 2) and that failure to declare all of those interests is evidence that the identity(ies) were gained by deception in order to conceal interests from audit and due diligence, which is fraud by failing to disclose information (Section 3). Only a police investigation will determine the size and scope of the fraud. Over half the JAC have multiple identities registered, and an even higher number of Police and Crime Commissioners. My MP, Lloyd Russell-Moyle has 5 identities registered, one without a hyphen, so he's not interested in assisting me. In my letters of complaint I've been calling for; a police investigation, all those with synthetic identities to resign, the audit guidelines to be updated to include checking for synthetic identities, an audit rotation, and, for the introduction of a method to flag an identity that has undergone deduplication in Companies House. In this way transparency, accountability and the rule of law might flourish.
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.
I’m just listening to the latest Jordan Peterson interview, it’s just so weird to watch the discussion on UKC this morning about that poor woman who’s teenage daughter with learning difficulties was arrested for just stating am observational fact (lesbian woman police officer) (?) and that the same ambiguous interpretations of new laws are happening in all these countries, simultaneously. How can people not see this is so artificial? Even today, it’s so dystopian. Today I went into a shop to buy a frame for my (worthless) certificate for my MA in Legal Studies. The shop owner congratulated me on my achievement. But explained how it was pretty meaningless after me and few others were excluded from our library and our graduation ceremony for being ‘lepers’. She just looked at me with that all-too-familiar blank stare. God have mercy on them.
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.
Thanks for this, this all looks very interesting! Perhaps worth writing up in some way? regards Piers
I've posted my letter of complaint regarding these two, on my Substack page. I have just finished an article that attempts to summarise the problem. Since I've been working alone on this, except for some input from ChatGPT, my letters are limited by my knowledge. So, I'd welcome others to investigate this and publish their findings. Advice on how to get the message across would be appreciated. (Beware: ChatGPT is of limited help, when it comes to the law, as it holds a corrupted version of the Companies Act 2006.)
Thanks Alison. I'll take a look at your substack page. We could consider your article for Propaganda in Focus?
Thank you. I'd be pleased if you would consider it for Propaganda in Focus. My complaints to the Commissioners for Standards, Lords and Parliamentary, have had mixed results. The Lords' CfS has done 3 investigations. He considers the multiple identities to be outside his remit but he did follow up on the failure to declare interests. Lord Fink made some adjustments, however, Baroness Smith and Lord Kennedy acknowledged that for "clarity" they should only have one identity and have taken steps to deduplicate their synthetic identities. The reports are near the top of the list available here: https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-financial-interests/house-of-lords-commissioner-for-standards-/house-of-lords-commissioner-for-standards-/reports-on-complaints/. Synthetic identities corrupting audits and due diligence puts us at risk of money-laundering and terrorism financing, as these are the laws that they are circumventing with their multiple identities. The Parliamentary CfS has been weaker than the Lords CfS, and the Parliamentary Standards are weaker than the Lords'. For example, Rishi Sunak didn't have to declare Akshata Murty's directorship of N&L Acquisitions, nor that he is currently a person with significant control of C&UCO Properties Limited, when he would have had to do so under the Lords' code of conduct. Note that Rishi Sunak has 3 identities, one with a false date of birth and Akshata Murty has 2 identities, one with a false date of birth. I've been pushing the Judicial Appointments Commission for a judicial judgement on whether holding multiple identities by providing different details to Companies House is evidence of fraud by false representation (section 2) and that failure to declare all of those interests is evidence that the identity(ies) were gained by deception in order to conceal interests from audit and due diligence, which is fraud by failing to disclose information (Section 3). Only a police investigation will determine the size and scope of the fraud. Over half the JAC have multiple identities registered, and an even higher number of Police and Crime Commissioners. My MP, Lloyd Russell-Moyle has 5 identities registered, one without a hyphen, so he's not interested in assisting me. In my letters of complaint I've been calling for; a police investigation, all those with synthetic identities to resign, the audit guidelines to be updated to include checking for synthetic identities, an audit rotation, and, for the introduction of a method to flag an identity that has undergone deduplication in Companies House. In this way transparency, accountability and the rule of law might flourish.
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.
hi Ursula, It is indeed very concerning. Would you be interested in writing a short piece on this for Propaganda in Focus? regards, P.
I’m just listening to the latest Jordan Peterson interview, it’s just so weird to watch the discussion on UKC this morning about that poor woman who’s teenage daughter with learning difficulties was arrested for just stating am observational fact (lesbian woman police officer) (?) and that the same ambiguous interpretations of new laws are happening in all these countries, simultaneously. How can people not see this is so artificial? Even today, it’s so dystopian. Today I went into a shop to buy a frame for my (worthless) certificate for my MA in Legal Studies. The shop owner congratulated me on my achievement. But explained how it was pretty meaningless after me and few others were excluded from our library and our graduation ceremony for being ‘lepers’. She just looked at me with that all-too-familiar blank stare. God have mercy on them.
You gave us a clear picture of how we, the average, slightly awakened people are feeling. Thank you from Japan.
Thank you for the kind comment. It is much appreciated, Piers