Here's a link to my article in The Guardian today, exploring the confused roles of modern British spies, and looking at some ways to sort out the mess.
Both the police and the spooks seem to be having a bit of an identity crisis at the moment...
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Cambridge Union Society Talk, 28th January 2011
I shall be returning to my alma mater next week to do a talk at the Cambridge Union Society on 28th January. I'll be discussing spies, civil liberites, whistleblowers, Wikileaks and much more.....
Blog
Speaking Experience
Talks
- Whistleblowing and Wikileaks Debate at SKUP, Norway, March 2012
- Mediafabric Conference, Prague, 21 October 2011
- The Big Dig Journalism Conference, Copenhagen
- Cambridge Union Society Talk (January 2011) on PSTV,
On PSTV: Sky 201 or 203 - CIJ Talk, London, July 2011
- How the Light Gets In - speaking in Hay-on-Wye, May 30 2011
Forthcoming talks at the end of May. - Frontline Club/New Statesman (FCNS) whistleblower debate with Julian Assange
- New York INN conference: How the world changed after 9/11
A televised symposium in New York, September 2010. - Bits of Freedom Talk, Amsterdam, September 2010
Talking about happy subjects to a very cool, switched-on crowd of geeks and activists. A good evening! - WikiLeaks Discussion Panel with Julian Assange, HAR NL 2009
WikiLeaks discussion and the need for whistleblowing. - The Secret Garden Party, UK 2010
Speaking at The Forum in the SGP 2010. - Talking about Totalitarianism at ETH-0, January 2010
- Canadian Tour
Finally! - Canadian Speaking Tour, May 2009
National tour starts on 22 May 2009 - Make Wars History Campaign
The launch of Make Wars History, January 2008 - ETH0 Hacker Camp, January 2009
Hacker conference in NL - Talks in California, September 2008
Two speaking events in California - Ethics Talk at a School
Talk at Bishops Stortford High School - McKinney and Machon in Amsterdam
Cynthia McKinney and Annie Machon speak in Amsterdam - Introducing Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in London, 2007
Introducing Cynthia McKinney in London
TV
- Book Review on "Epilogue"
- Libya, MI6, and torture - interview on Press TV
- RTTV Interview: Libya - the perfect storm
- RTTV interview: Murdoch's ex-CEO arrested
- Press TV interview about spies and the media, June 2011
- RTTV interview on the royal wedding and arrest of UK activists
- RTTV interview, 23 March 2011 about the war in Libya and the dilemma facing the West
- RTTV interview - dancing with the devil - how not to deal with "rogue" states
- Libya Interview, RTTV 23 February 2011
- Interview about the Russian spy ring on Russia Today TV, 30th June 2010
Photograph Album
- For publicity, or whatever... Many thanks to Chris Carr for most of these wonderful photos.
Articles
- The Bureau of Investigative Journalism article
- Guantanamo Files: was Bin Hamlili really an MI6 source?
- The Guardian, 24 January 2011
- Legal doublethink re whistleblowers - my CPBF article, July 2006
- Sunday Telegraph Article, August 2010
- August 2005 Guardian Article
- March 2005 CPBF Article on the Shayler Trial
- AltVoices Article, June 2007
- The UK Spies: Ineffective, Unethical and Unaccountable
- August 2007 Mail on Sunday Article
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Bleats
- UK spies get a B+ for intrusive surveillance in 2010
- The Age of Transparency?
- Can the product of bugs be used as court evidence in the UK?
- Knowledge is power - the MI6 prime directive
- Just how many unaccountable spy organisations are out there in the UK?
- The role of intelligence agencies within a democracy
- The assassination of dissidents
- BBC article: could 7/7 have been prevented?
- New attack on Wikileaks
Recent Posts
- La Conférence régionale du journalisme d'enquête, Geneva
- The Gareth Williams Inquest
- 21st Century Pacificism (The Old Stuff)
- Wikileaks and Whistleblowing Debate at SKUP, Norway
- The Scandinavian Tour 2012
- A blast from the past
- And now to Finland....
- Talks in Sweden and Norway
- Just Say No - the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs
- The Extradition Farce - why the delay in reform?
Interviews
- Interview in Cambridge with PSTV, January 2011
- Varsity newspaper interview, February 2011
- Interview in The Independent about female spies, November 2006
- Interview about the Russian spy ring on Russia Today TV, 30th June 2010
- Interview about the Russian spy swap on Russia Today TV, 8th July 2010
- Interview with Ryan JW Smith, July 2010
- Emel Magazine, November 2007
- New Statesman Article, August 2008
- The Point of No Return
- Interview with Francis Wheen, 1999
Bookshelf
- "Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers" - subversion chapter
- Freedom of Expression in the UK - Article 19 and Liberty
- "Spies, Lies, and Whistleblowers" - the full text of the book
- Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers - a BitTorrent download
- GMC Determinations about the Steven Lomax case
- Operation Shadower - illegal MI5 bugging of left-wing UK journalist
- The Israeli Embassy Two - a gross miscarriage of justice
- Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers - the Gaddafi Plot chapters
- May 2005 - The Times
- Spies Lies and Whistleblowers
