David Miller interviewed on NTV Turkey on the G20 talks on 2 April, at 14.30 hrs BST, http://www.ntv.com.tr/

David Miller interviewed on Scotland at Ten, BBC Radio Scotland on global poverty and the G20, 2200, 1 April 2009.

David Miller interviewed on Obama's visit to the UK for the G20, the Chris Askew Atlanta radio talk show Unwrapped (WAOK 13.80 AM), Atlanta Georgia, 1500-1515 local time, 1 April 2009

March

The Morning Show for March 5th 2009 The Morning Show discusses the UK's Prime Minister, Gordon Brown's visit to Washington with David Miller, Prof. of Sociology, Strathclyde University, Scotland. KPFA, Berkeley, California. Listen here.

February

Charity guide criticised for not declaring GM interests By Zoe Corbyn The Times Higher Education, 19 February 2009

David Miller, professor of sociology at the University of Strathclyde, who is involved in running the website Spinwatch.org.uk, likened the pamphlet to "a PR exercise".

David Hencke, 'Westminster correspondent Lords claims could force government U-turn over lobbyists' The Guardian, Tuesday 3 February 2009.

Nor will the new rules satisfy campaigning groups. David Millar, director of Spinwatch, part of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency, said: "It wouldn't cover the majority of lobbying, by in-house lobbyists, or by law firms and management consultancies and it would be open to abuse. We need a simple mandatory register of lobbying activity, and an independent body to ensure compliance."

January

Colin Fernandez 'The peers for hire at £25,000 a time... and they don't have to reveal lucrative second jobs', Daily Mail, Last updated at 12:19 AM on 31st January 2009.

Campaigners said the Lords should reveal who they are working for, and how much they earn by addressing them, to dispel any questions over their conduct...

David Miller, a founder of Spinwatch, which investigates abuses by PRs and lobbyists, said yesterday: 'We don't know how abused this process is because we don't know who they are working for.'

'These currently obscure means of influence should be opened up to the public - it's a gravy train that needs to be regulated or stopped.'

Nicola Fisher, Glasgow Stop the War Coalition, Ghassan Hemsi, Muslim Association of Britain (Scotland), Professor David Miller, 28 January 2009 Letter to Ken McQuarrie, Controller, BBC Scotland Mark Thompson, Director-General, BBC Michael Lyons, Chairman, BBC Trust Caroline Thomson, Chief Operating Officer, BBC, on the BBC refusal to broadcast the DEC appeal on Gaza.

David Hencke and Rob Evans Tory peer accused of misusing Lords to boost her own firm: Baroness admits listing of interests not 'punctilious' : Pressure group Spinwatch lodges complaint guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 January 2009 02.04 GMT

Spinwatch's spokesman, David Miller, said : "No peer should be treating parliament as an office from which to do commercial business, and we will be making a complaint to the relevant authority. The fact that we don't know who Cumberlege's clients are – especially commercial health companies – is also a concern and underlines the fundamental need for greater transparency."

But David Miller, of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency, a pressure group campaigning for better regulation of lobbyists, which obtained the documents, said: "It is not appropriate for ministers to take jobs in industries which they formerly regulated."

Miller added that the rules covering ex-ministers taking jobs in commercial companies should be tightened, not relaxed. "Our view is that the rules are not tight enough. There's no enforcement mechanism if people ignore the rules. There should be stronger penalties if they breach the rules. There is none at the moment."

He added that there should be a longer cooling-off period between ministers leaving office and taking up their new job.

Guido Fawkes, 'Remember, Remember' Guido Fawkes Website, November 5, 2008

Doubts have been cast about Kohlman's credentials. "He appears to have risen almost without trace," says David Miller, professor of sociology at Strathclyde University, who is compiling a database of "terrorologists".

Professor David Miller, of Strathclyde University, said corporations were exerting creeping control over government and public services which would lead to "the undermining of democracy".

Professor David Miller, of the University of Strathclyde and a founder of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency, said: “This is appalling. It brings the stories about party funding, cash for honours, parliamentary ethics and lobbying together in one and it shows the urgent need for tightened regulation of lobbyists.”

Campaigners calling for greater transparency in Westminster expressed concern. Spinwatch co-founder David Miller said: 'It is fairly clear that you should not be doing two jobs at once if it is a conflict of interest.'

Stephen Stewart, 'Scottish Councils Spend £60million on Consultants', Daily Record, 4 February 2008:

Documents released under freedom of information laws show private firms have received huge sums of public cash. The spending has created a black hole in the nation's local government budget. Aberdeen was the worst culprit - spending pounds 30million. Documents revealed the council's head of planning and infrastructure alone spent more than pounds 12.5million on consultancy fees. Professor David Miller, an expert in public sector accountability at Strathclyde University, said: "I think this is a major scandal. "A lot of services are being delivered by organisations with a great deal less democratic accountability."

The founders of a new pressure group, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency, will this morning give evidence to a select committee inquiry into the dark art. Lobbying is essential in so far as it helps politicians and decision-makers to understand the vested interests of the day, but the group demands greater transparency. One of its founders, Professor David Miller, of Strathclyde University, will suggest a mandatory register of lobbyists and a stringent ethics policy to prevent civil servants, ex-ministers and their relatives from cashing in.

ePolitix, 'MPs urged to back lobbying register: Campaigners have urged MPs to consider a mandatory register for lobbyists.', 24 January, 2008:

David Miller from Spinwatch pointed to a recent example of lobbying malpractice, an obesity group which many MPs were unaware was funded by a diet company.

"MPs need to be given proper information about what lobbyists are up to," he said.

He went on: "It's clear that it is the democratic right of every interest in society to be able to access decision-makers and petition them, but it's also clear that in a democracy there ought to be some sort of level playing field."

When interviewed, David Miller, Professor of Sociology at the University of Strathclyde, who is on the board of the new Critical Studies in Terrorism journal, said “research in this area is the "plaything of state power”. “The interest in this field is driven by the ideological enemy of the Western powers, not the problems of terrorism” he said “The difficulty is in producing independent terrorism research. Most people in the field are signed up to a counter-insurgency ideology."

Iranian National Radio, 27 March 2007: David Miller was interviewed in Iranian National Radio English Language Service on the Cash for Peerages scandal

Iranian National Radio, 14 February 2007 David Miller was interviewed on the English Language Service of Iranian national radio on the popularity of Tony Blair.

BBC Radio Scotland – Scotland at 10, 1 February 2007: David Miller was interviewed about the privatisation of Scottish Water and the research carried out in the department on this for the STUC, BBC Radio Scotland at 10.

2006

10/11/06 David Miller was interviewed for twenty minutes live on ‘Drivetime’ on Colourful Radio

05/11/06 Times Online Article on Professor Reece Walters, a criminologist at Stirling University, who has accused the Scottish Executive of "watering down" his research on youth courts because it was critical of a flagship policy. Features comment from Professor David Miller, Sociology, who said ministers should not be allowed to interfere with academic research: "This is happening to academics across Scotland."

16/10/06 BBC Radio Scotland; Scotland at Ten Discussion on the Bank of Scotland Labour Market report for September which shows a slow down in jobs growth in Scotland amid concerns about the size of the public sector. Features interview with Professor David Miller, Geography & Sociology, who commented that there is a need for more public sector training of people for engineering jobs.

16/10/06 BBC Radio Scotland David Miller was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland’s Scotland at Ten on the publication of the Public Interest Research Network report on Scottish Water.

08/10/06 Sunday Herald A report on the revelation that the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) had delayed and altered a news release about an assessment of radioactive pollution at Dalgety Bay, a family sailing centre. It is claimed the release was altered after a senior Scottish Executive public relations official described it as "not entirely helpful". Features comment from Professor David Miller, Geography & Sociology, who said: "This is not about making things clearer, it’s about deceiving people, and it calls into question Sepa’s independence. It demonstrates an appalling subservience to the Executive’s diktat."

28/09/06 Islamic Republic of Iran Radio David Miller was interviewed on Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting National Radio News about the influence of the neoconservatives on Tony Blair and the Manchester anti war demonstration.

18/08/06 David Miller was interviewed on ‘The Breakfast Club’ Radio show, Kingston, Jamaica

28/05/06 Letter in Sunday Herald Prof David Miller, Dr Patricia McCafferty, Dept of Geography and Sociology

LAST weekend we held a landmark international conference at Strathclyde University on the theme of Neoliberal Scotland, examining the place of a devolved Scotland in a globalised world. In last week’s Sunday Herald (Seven Days, May 21), Brian McNair took our conference to task for not encouraging "positive thinking" and a "new language for Scottish politics". What this appears to mean is that we don’t share his enthusiasm for the free market. "Globalisation is good. Capitalism works," he said.

The evidence for this appears to be the rise in living standards in the UK over the past 20 years. But this is at the expense of sweatshop workers and farmers forced off their land across the developing world. We should also ask how much of that increased income now goes towards paying for goods and services which were once free and funded by general taxation. The increases in spending on public services are used as a stick to beat the "bloated" public sector. But as everyone who has heard the initials PFI [public finance initiative] or PPP [public private partnership] knows, huge sums of public money are now committed for decades to be spent on bolstering the profits of the private companies running our "public" services. Left to themselves, the corporations would swoop on water, CalMac and what is left of the NHS.

How much longer do we have to leave it to discuss the environment, poverty, war and other crises facing humanity, as well as finding ways of resolving them? Turning our back on political debate that is informed by facts rather than prejudice might be comfortable for a while, but the problems we face will not go away simply by holding on to a naive faith in the miraculous power of the market.

19/05/06 BBC Radio Scotland David Miller, Colin Clark and Colin Leys were all interviewed about neoliberalism for the BBC Radio Scotland Scotland at 10.

The Guardian, May 03, 2006

The Sunday Herald, 14 May 2006

Private Eye on Nuclear Spin: Private Eye, No. 1159, 26 May - 8 June 2006.

14/04/06 Robbie Dinwoodie, ‘Greens: science briefings could be biased by business', The Herald. David Miller was interviewed about the Scottish Parliament Science Information Service:

Professor David Miller of Strathclyde University, who runs the internet group spinwatch.org, claimed the parliament has been naive in its dealings with the private sector and its lobbyists.

He pointed out that Willie Rennie, now a LibDem MP, effectively ran the science information scheme while working for a PR agency hired by the Royal Society of Chemistry – the kind of linkage between learned societies and private lobbyists who could represent other clients, which made it impossible to be confident of the impartiality of advice.

13/04/06 BBC Newsnight Scotland David Miller was interviewed about the Scottish Parliament Science Information Service.

07/04/06 BBC Radio Scotland – Scotland at Ten David Allison reported on the launch of the Labour local council election campaign and the work of the script writer. The Blair and Brown script was all about unity but the press script was all about splits. Professor David Miller was among the interviewees and said: "The problem is that Blair and Brown are trying to present two conflicting scripts at the same time…"

06/04/06 Radio Scotland David Miller was interviewed on the Scotland at Ten programme, on the ways in which media and politicians try and script news issues.

22/03/06 David Miller was interviewed on The Breakfast Club, the flagship morning discussion programme in Jamaica. hosted by Eric Anthony Abrahams (former Minister of Tourism) and Dr. Trevor Munroe (Political Scientist). David debated the decline in Tony Blair's popularity with Dawn Butler MP and Andrew Glynn of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

02/03/06 BBC Radio Scotland David Miller was interviewed on Good Morning Scotland on government Public Information Campaigns on Wednesday.

19/02/06 Sunday Herald
A Scottish Euro MP with strong links to financial services has been criticised after it emerged he had backed proposals that could benefit some companies with which he is involved. John Purvis, the veteran Tory MEP, has consistently supported the hedge fund and biotechnology industries since he was elected in 1999. But he has championed them at the same time as having a significant stake in both sectors. Professor David Miller said: "This is an example of a conflict of interest which is all too common in Scottish politics…one way forward is to tighten up codes on conduct…and to outlaw private business interests."

21/01/06 BBC 4 David Miller was interviewed for the Cinema Show on representations of ‘terrorism’ in the context of the new Spielberg film ‘Munich’.

David Miller interviewed by File On Four, Radio Four, for a programme on lobbying the EU, transmitted 22 November 2005.

David Miller was interviewed by Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight on the rise of the blogger and the failure of mainstream media to report on the attack on Falluja, 17 November 2005. Watch on youtube:

David Miller interviewed on Radio Francais International on Blair’s defeat on anti terrorism legislation, 11 November 2005.

David Miller interviewed by Idrees Ahmad entitled “Propaganda-Managed Democracy: UK and the lessons of Iraq”, Monday October 31, 87.7FM at 8.30pm.