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31 Oct, 5 tweets, 4 min read
Hi @BBC @Channel4 @ITV @netflix.

Tufton Street free-market think tanks are extraordinarily influential, with very strong links to the UK Govt & to a global network of many of the richest & most powerful people & organisations on earth, yet we rarely - if ever - hear about them.
Imho, Tufton St would make a fantastic drama, a fabulous satirical comedy, a worthy investigative special, or especially a feature-length documentary.

It has the ingredients of power, money, evil & subterfuge, & it even has the Marvelesque #NineEntities

So @DeSmogUK & @bakerstherald have done a lot of the hard work for you in mapping the network of lobbyists & campaigners based out of offices in & around Westminster’s 55 Tufton St, & spelling out the catastrophic consequences of their malign ambitions.

bylinetimes.com/2019/06/10/bre…
So PLEASE can we have a decent documentary that spells this out - or at least MUCH more coverage of this almost invisible power that is so profoundly shaping the lives of everyone on earth & doing SO much harm globally to democracies & the environment? 🙏

Thanks to @JCaramac for bringing this impassioned speech to protestors by @GeorgeMonbiot,
outside Tufton Street in September 2020, to my/our attention:

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