Spies and the Media — my recent talk at the Centre for Investigative Journalism
Here’s the film of my talk at the recent summer school at the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London a month ago: Many thanks to Gavin and the rest of the CIJ team for such a stimulating and...
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The Official Secrets Act — when will the British media learn?
I have been watching with a certain cynical interest the unfolding of Operation Weeting, one of the plethora of Metropolitan Police investigations into the UK phone hacking scandal, involving many of...
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Journalists need to wise up to secrecy laws
I had a fantastic time at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kiev last weekend. A huge well done to the organisers for a great four days, and I loved having the chance to meet so many...
View ArticleMediafabric talk, Prague, October 2011
Last October I had the pleasure of speaking at the excellent Mediafabric conference in Prague. The focus of my talk was the future of intelligence, whistleblowing and journalism. The event was...
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21st Century Pacificism (The Old Stuff)
I have always been ideologically opposed to war and all the horrors that flow in its wake: agonising fear and death, famine, displacement, maiming, torture, rape, internment and the breakdown of all...
View ArticleThe Real News Network on Whistleblowing, Part 2
Part Two of my recent interview on the excellent, independent and fearless Real News Network: The Real News Network on Whistleblowing, Part 2
View ArticleThe Free Speech Debate
My recent interview for the excellent Oxford University Free Speech Debate project, run by Professor Timothy Garton Ash. I discuss whistleblowing, the Official Secrets Act, Wikileaks and much more:...
View ArticleThe Real News Network Whistleblower Special
The Real News Network coverage of the recent Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, with contributions from many of the whistleblowers involved: More at The Real News The Real News Network...
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Lies, damned lies, and newspaper reporting…
Also on the Huffington Post UK, RT, The Real News Network, nsnbc, and Information Clearing House: Where to start with this tangled skein of media spin, misrepresentation and outright hypocrisy? Last...
View ArticleSpies need more oversight, not new powers
Published on www.politics.co.uk, and Huffington Post UK. Following the awful murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich last week, the political securocrats who claim to represent the interests of the...
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Dearlove Doublethink
Published on Consortium News, RT Op-Edge, and The Real News Network. In a sensational article in a UK newspaper last weekend, the former head of the UK’s foreign intelligence gathering agency, MI6,...
View ArticleUS/UK spy chiefs cover up NSA surveillance scandal
First published on RT Op-Edge. Also on Information Clearing House and The Huffington Post. The disparity in response to Edward Snowden’s disclosures within the USA and the UK is astonishing. In the...
View ArticleMI5 officer has evidence of torture?
Well, this story is interesting me extremely, and for the obvious as well as the perhaps more arcanely legal reasons. Apparently a former senior MI5 officer is asking permission to give evidence to the...
View ArticleThe Chilcot Report about the Iraq War
Here is an interview I did yesterday about the long-awaited Chilcot Report into the clusterfuck that was and is Iraq: The Chilcot Report on the Iraq War from Annie Machon on Vimeo. The Chilcot Report...
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