[SSC] CANCELLED: What are you reading for? December 7th.

[Joss Winn]

Just to let you know that December's seminar has been cancelled as the
speaker's schedule has changed. We hope that Stevphen Shukaitis will be
able to give a talk at the SSC in the Spring.

Remember that all events, classes and meetings are listed on the SSC
calendar: http://socialsciencecentre.org.uk/calendar/

Our next public seminar is on Wednesday 15th January, when Prof. Richard
Lance Keeble will be discussing:

Hacks and Spooks: Close encounters of a strange kind.

The links between intelligence and journalists – and their increasing
importance particularly since the 1980s – remain largely hidden despite
the massive recent coverage given to the revelations by WikiLeaks and
former CIA analyst Edward Snowden. This talk will provide a brief
overview of the links between hacks and spooks since the 1940s. Thus it
will highlight the activities of such journalists as George Orwell, Ian
(James Bond) Fleming, and Hugh Cudlipp; the role of the press in a plot
to oust a Prime Minister – and the work of the Rockingham cell in the
Ministry of Defence which has spread much of the disinformation about
manufactured “terrorist” scares via sympathetic Fleet Street journalists
since 9/11.