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Charlie Skelton's Bilderblog

Comedy writer Charlie Skelton stalks the secretive comings and goings at the annual Bilderberg conference of leading world figures

12 June 2016

  • A protest sign outside Bilderberg 2016 in Dresden

    No press conference in sight as Bilderberg stays largely under wraps

    There are signs that the conference’s love affair with silence may be waning, but it remains secretive and highly policed

11 June 2016

  • Protestor holding a sign surrounded by police

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

    Corporate titles of super-rich industrialists just don’t fit in with Bilderberg’s veneer of academia as well as ‘fellow’ or ‘professor’

8 June 2016

  • Workers erect a barricade outside the Taschenbergpalais hotel in Dresden

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

    Frowning gunslingers are patrolling hotel corridors and a ring of concrete has been erected outside. What are they expecting?

7 June 2016

  • Henry Kissinger

    Bilderberg: still powerful but perhaps a bit more anxious this year

    The spectre of Brexit looms large as the financial, industrial and high-tech establishment gathers in Dresden

15 June 2015

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

    Bilderberg looks to the future but is stuck in the past

    Charlie Skelton
    Bilderberg has reached out to Silicon Valley; it’s even grappling with AI, but its media strategy and heavy-handed policing are from another era

14 June 2015

  • 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.

    Bilderberg 2015: TTIP and a travesty of transparency

    Charlie Skelton
    A summit where senior policymakers are locked away for three days with incredibly powerful corporate lobbyists, and senior figures at Transparency International

12 June 2015

  • Mustafa Koç arrives at Bilderberg 2015.

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

    I’ve extended the hand of friendship to one of the group’s most prominent members – now what’s called for is some public exposure

11 June 2015

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

    Bilderberg 2015: where criminals mingle with ministers

    Charlie Skelton
    Even a lecture on the convicted criminals due to arrive or a chat about ‘shameless’ HSBC didn’t deter Austria’s officers from yet another ID check

10 June 2015

  • A mobile radar station supplied to cover the Bilderberg conference

    At the G7, we journalists were pampered – at Bilderberg we're harassed by police

    Bilderberg uses the same security as the G7, just on a slightly different alp. So why don’t the lavish state resources extend to allowing free press reporting?

8 June 2015

  • Austrian police officers check cars near the town of Telfs, prior the 2015 Bilderberg conference.

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

    Covering issues from Europe to terrorism and IT, the lesser known Bilderberg policy conference includes prime ministers, CEOs from banks, airlines, oil and the arms industry, and even George Osborne

3 June 2014

  • Björn Wahlroos

    Bilderberg 2014 roundup: privacy, transparency and Birkin bags

    As the Scandinavian sun almost but not quite sets on Bilderberg 2014, we can finally take a breath and look back at a significant year. So what did we learn?

2 June 2014

  • Osborne

    Bilderberg 2014: George Osborne and the man at the centre of everything

    After terrifying John Major, Sir John Kerr has moved on to well-connected boardrooms and the heart of Bilderberg

31 May 2014

  • General Philip Breedlove

    Bilderberg on Ukraine: military chiefs, arms bosses and billionaire speculators

    A gathering of those who stand to make a killing out of knowing where and when the bombs might fall, how many and on whom

30 May 2014

  • Osborne at Bilderberg

    Bilderberg conference 2014: eating our politicians for breakfast

    George Osborne, Lord Mandelson, Ed Balls and Eric Schmidt arrive for day two of the conference in Copenhagen

29 May 2014

  • Bilderberg conference: delegates arrive

    Bilderberg Group at 60: still keeping the things that matter private

    Photographers play an important part in bringing the faces of the powerful at the Copenhagen conference to a wider world

11 June 2013

  • Michael Meacher addresses the fringe crowd.

    Bilderberg 2013: The sun sets on Watford

    Cosy elite get-together may never be the same again after Hertfordshire became the focus of world attention

5 June 2013

  • Christine Lagarde

    Bilderberg 2013: welcome to 1984

    Relax: thanks to Goldman Sachs and other 'donors', this year's conference will be cost-neutral for Hertfordshire – despite the construction of the Great Wall of Watford

5 June 2012

  • Romney bilderberg

    Bilderberg 2012: were Mitt Romney and Bill Gates there?

    Another conference over. Charlie Skelton talks to some of the 800 activists outside the gates to find out what they learned

4 June 2012

  • Ken Clarke at Bilderberg

    Bilderberg 2012: Ken Clarke's drive of shame

    Britain's lord chancellor Ken Clarke looks a little weary as he makes a late appearance at a pleasantly chaotic Bilderberg

3 June 2012

  • Bilderberg 2012: bullhorn gun

    Bilderberg 2012: guess who's coming to dinner

    In Charlie Skelton's latest, a surprise guest slips into Bilderberg, and gets a warm reception from the 'Golden Bullhorn'

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