Matthew Taylor CBE previously led the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) between 2006 and 2021
RSA Address: 8 John Adam Street, London
Brian Clivaz ,director of the famous L’Escargot Restaurant in Soho,
CEO of the Devonshire Club,
is a Freeman of the City of London, Liveryman – The Worshipful Company of Cooks, Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality and
Fellow The ROYAL SOCIETY ARTS thecriticsguide.com/sevensins/290/…
The Devonshire Club is part of Le Cercle de Wallonie, along with St Jame’s Club, The Sloane Club, Phyllis Court Club and Royal Dublin Society web.archive.org/web/2020102513…
Baron Patrick de Caters is a member of Cercle de Wallonië, along with ... archive.ph/LRrEw
"Soho-based L’Escargot launched a pop-up restaurant L’Escargot Sur Mer
George Pell runs the restaurant" eadt.co.uk/things-to-do/a…
he organised parties for Kylie Minogue, Paul McCartney & Damien Hirst. He then worked at the Arts Club as night club manager gastronomes.org/2018/06/18/new…
He organised parties for Sotheby’s, Goldman Sachs, New York Times, Zaha Hadid and Tracey Emin
George is a member of the Devonshire Society, FSB Groucho, Black’s and an Ambassador for the Jockey Club.
Pell also arranged evenings for Prince Harry, Princess Eugenie, David Beckham and Mark Ronson
In 2015, Ronson became a patron of the Amy Winehouse Foundation..
GG : "the Huxley family was deeply involved with the United Nations. Aldous Huxley’s brother, Julian Huxley, was one of the most influential figures in the early history of the UN, serving as the very first Director-General of UNESCO from 1946 to 1948. ..
While Julian Huxley was busy at the United Nations offices in Geneva shaping post-war internationalism, Aldous Huxley’s relationship with the French language and culture remained highly personal, deeply literary, and central to how he viewed the world."..
GG : "The UK Coalition Government changed the law in September 2011 to restrict private arrest warrants, a move explicitly designed to prevent the arrest of visiting Israeli officials. 🤔
The Tzipi Livni Warrant: In December 2009, a London magistrate issued an arrest warrant for former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni over alleged war crimes during the 2008–2009 Gaza war. Livni cancelled her trip to the UK to avoid arrest .."
Years earlier, Doron Almog narrowly escaped arrest at Heathrow Airport by refusing to step off his plane after learning a British magistrate had issued a private warrant against him. Following these events, the Israeli government heavily pressured the UK to change its laws."..
Some of Cambridge’s most brilliant mathematical minds were tangled up with the Cambridge University Science Fiction (and Fantasy) Society (CUSFS), and they birthed one of the most legendary, bizarre "gaming clubs" in history.
Rowan Pelling :
" Count Binface is the best of British. Unfortunately for Furious Farage, our country will never trust ‘establishment’ politicians who can’t laugh at themselves"🤔 archive.is/RnGvJ
It’s as if Newsnight were scripted by Monty Python. Long-term prankster and electoral underdog Count Binface stands for the exasperated voter, while five-property-owning, career politician Farage looks increasingly like the establishment."
"Powered by US money and far-right European think tanks, Cambridge has recently become an outpost of a peculiar blend of national conservatism and apocalyptic Christianity, through the figure of James Orr – Head of Policy at Reform UK described as Nigel Farage’s “Kingmaker“."
Byline Times can now reveal that with the behind-the-scenes support of Peter Thiel — Trump backer and co-founder of Palantir Technologies — Orr has used Cambridge University as a recruitment ground to bring students into a hard-right, theocratic political project ..