Spy Cops & the Media inc Murdoch's role. Seminar with Stephen Dorril, Eileen Turnbull & Laurie Flynn

Introduced by Granville Willams at Media North this debate took a close look at the London news media's role in government crimes and cover-ups since the Harold Wilson and Margaret Thatcher era.

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As the Spy Cops Bill reached the House of Lords, we discussed previous miscarriages of justice and the media. Watch the debate below.

Spycops are on the rise. And Momentum has been on the forefront of opposing their legitimisation by government. But their threat expands beyond just activist groups - they have infiltrated and are collaborating with much of our media.

Our Volunteer Slack, in partnership with The Campaign for Press and Broadcast Freedom and The Working Group, held this event in February 2021 with some speakers well versed in the tactics of the intelligence and police establishment:

Stephen Dorril on the way the security services began to infiltrate left groups and the trade union movement in the 1960s. He has written extensively on the security services and is the author of Smear!: Wilson and the Secret State.

Eileen Turnbull, researcher for the Shrewsbury 24 campaign, will talk about her work which led to the recent judicial review of the original trials of the pickets in 1973 and 1974.

Laurie Flynn, journalist and co-author with Michael Gillard of Untouchables - Dirty Cops, Bent Justice & Racism in Scotland Yard. He will talk about his own experiences of the complicity of the media in ignoring miscarriages of justice and what happens when journalists like him tried to expose police corruption.