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Charlie Skelton

Charlie Skelton is a comedy writer, journalist and olive farmer. He is script editor of Channel 4's 10 O'Clock Live and writes on various similar sorts of things for television and radio

June 2024

  • a woman holds a sign that reads 'stop bilderberg criminals'

    War, AI and more war: the 2024 Bilderberg agenda is sure to set off alarm bells

    The secretive annual summit has tried to counter its arcane reputation, but its guest list still reads like a conspiracist’s who’s who of who rules the world

May 2023

  • Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, left, a participant in the 69th Bilderberg summit in Lisbon, shakes hands with his Portuguese counterpart, João Gomes Cravinho.

    At Bilderberg’s bigwig bash two things are guaranteed: Kissinger and secrecy

    The annual elite networking, diplomatic and lobbying event took place in splendid seclusion behind closed doors in Lisbon

June 2022

  • Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of NATO, will headline this years Bilderberg elite global summit in Washington DC.

    Bilderberg reconvenes in person after two-year pandemic gap

    The Washington conference, a high-level council of war, will be headlined by Jens Stoltenberg, Nato’s secretary general

June 2019

  • boat12pompeo

    Bilderberg Ahoy! Pompeo and Kushner join the billionaire boat club

    From a Swiss shore, the rich and mighty – and select, discreet reporters – could be seen enjoying the annual secretive summit

June 2018

  • A protester’s sign saying ‘Stop The New World Order’ near the venue of the 2016 Bilderberg conference in Dresden, Germany.

    Will Bilderberg still be relevant as the future of war is transformed?

  • Demis Hassabis, who runs Google’s DeepMind project

    Bilderberg 2018: new tech helps oil the wheels of the global elite

June 2017

  • Secretive Bilderberg Conference Begins 2017 Meetings In Virginia<br>CHANTILLY, VA - JUNE 01: A member of Fairfax County Police stands guard at the entrance of Westfield Marriott Hotel where the Bilderberg Meeting takes place June 1, 2017 in Chantilly, Virginia. The secretive group meeting has invited at least 131 world elites to participate in this yearÕs four-day event which, according to the group’s website, with “no detailed agenda, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued.” (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

    Bilderberg conference: attendees dodge the press as secretive meeting ends

    Most in attendance avoided journalists at all costs, but Ryanair’s CEO says annual gathering of world’s elite was ‘very useful’
  • Spanish economy minister Luis de Guindos (left) and a man the World Bank claims is not its executive director Fernando Jiménez Latorre (right). Photograph: Carter Osmar

    Bilderberg: the world’s most secretive conference is as out of touch as ever

    The secretive group will discuss the ‘war on information’ and ponder whether globalisation can be slowed – but they may want to take a look in the mirror
  • BESTPIX BESTPIX Donald Trump Hosts Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc At White House *** BESTPIX ***<br>WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 31: U.S. President Donald Trump watches as Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc leaves the White House following meetings May 31, 2017 in Washington, DC. According to Phuc, the U.S. and Vietnam are working on new trade agreements after the Trump Administration withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

    Bilderberg 2017: secret meeting of global leaders could prove a problem for Trump

    The annual gathering of government and industry elites will include a ‘progress report’ on the Trump administration. Will it get a passing grade?

June 2016

  • A protest sign outside Bilderberg 2016 in Dresden

    Charlie Skelton's Bilderblog
    No press conference in sight as Bilderberg stays largely under wraps

  • Protestor holding a sign surrounded by police

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    Bilderberg in Dresden: an innocent conference or conflict of interests?

  • Workers erect a barricade outside the Taschenbergpalais hotel in Dresden

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    Bilderberg staff make last nervy tweaks before arrival of the rich and powerful

  • Henry Kissinger

    Charlie Skelton's Bilderblog
    Bilderberg: still powerful but perhaps a bit more anxious this year

June 2015

  • Chairman of the Bilderberg Group, Henry de Castries, the head of AXA, decides whether or not to speak to the press.

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    Bilderberg looks to the future but is stuck in the past

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  • Jessica T Mathews travels on a coach at the Bilderberg summit. She is on the steering committee of the summit and also on the advisory council of Transparency International USA.

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    Bilderberg 2015: TTIP and a travesty of transparency

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  • Mustafa Koç arrives at Bilderberg 2015.

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    Koç pops up at Bilderberg: could this be the year to let it all hang out?

  • A sign in front of a police checkpoint on a road leading to the Interalpen-Hotel Tirol, venue of the Bilderberg conference.

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    Bilderberg 2015: where criminals mingle with ministers

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  • Charlie Skelton's Bilderblog
    At the G7, we journalists were pampered – at Bilderberg we're harassed by police

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    Forget the G7 summit – Bilderberg is where the big guns go

  • The G7 media centre – a German sausage factory of news

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