Monday 13 September – 7:00-8:30pm – Westminster Skeptics, London
Come along to the Westminster Skeptics where I’ll be talking about a radical new concept of making political policy based on publicly available facts. This is the antithesis of policy-making through secret lobbying or public relations propaganda. Currently, the UK public exist in a state of information apartheid where one’s access to facts is directly determined by one’s wealth, power or privilege. There is a move to open up huge tracts of official data to the people but there is much resistance and it is a great struggle to get even the most basic civic data. Come and join me for some pontification and a pint.

Location Old Monk Exchange (Corner of Strutton Ground and Victoria Street), London

Reserve a place on the Skeptics Facebook page.

Saturday 21 August – 12:00-1:00pm – Edinburgh International Book Festival
I’ll be speaking about The Silent State in the ScottishPower Studio Theatre and doing a book signing afterwards.

Book tickets and more info here. Woohoo! I’ve already sold out – but you can still come along afterwards for the signing.

Thursday 12 August – 7.00pm – Frontline Club
The publication by Wikileaks of more than 70,000 classified US military documents on the Afghan war is forcing journalists to confront their antipathy to electronic data. Increasingly, stories will come not only not only from paper documents and human sources but electronic sets of data. I’ll be speaking on a panel to discuss all these issues of data journalism with: Julian Assange, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief (via online link up); media lawyer Mark Stephens of Finers, Stephens Innocent and the Guardian’s legal editor Afua Hirsch.

Book tickets and more info here.

Sat 29th May 2010 – 7.00pm – Hay Literary Festival
I’ll be speaking at the Hay Festival (Event Number 67) on The Silent State with writer and lawyer Philippe Sands. The event is being held in the Guardian Stage and I’ll be vying to pack it out despite competition from Alain de Botton, Jerry Hall (eh?), David Mitchell and Grayson Perry.

Book tickets here. There will be a book signing afterwards.

13th April – 7.45pm – Southbank Centre

I’ll be in conversation with historian Tristram Hunt on Tuesday 13th April at 7.45pm. The event is part of the Southbank Centre’s Election 2010 series and I’ll be discussing The Silent State.

Book tickets and more info here.

15th April – 1pm – Royal Society of Arts
I’ll be speaking at the RSA about Secrets, Surveillance and the State of British Democracy. The event is chaired by
Matthew Taylor the RSA’s chief executive. This event is already FULLY BOOKED but you join the waiting list.
More information here.