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Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) UK Conference
Last month, in my new role as Director of LEAP Europe, I was invited to do a talk at the SSDP conference in London. It was great to meet the key SSDP organisers, and also share a platform with Jason...
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The Olympics — Welcome to the Machine
Published in The Huffington Post UK, 27 July 2012 OK, I was really so not planning on ever writing anything, whatsoever, at any point while I continue to breathe, about the London Olympics. First of...
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Interview for the Release newsletter, “TalkingDrugs”
An interview I did on behalf of LEAP this week for the newsletter of the UK campaign, Release. Release, run by the indefatigable Niamh Eastwood, does excellent work providing legal advice about drug...
View Article“The House I Live In” — drug panel discussion
I recently represented LEAP at a panel discussion in London about the failed war on drugs after a screening of the excellent film The House I Live In, along with Steve Rolles of Transform and Niamh...
View ArticleThe Keiser Report — my recent interview
My recent interview on Max Keiser’s excellent RT show, The Keiser Report, apparently now the most watched English language news commentary show across the world. We were discussing such happy subjects...
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Iceland Tour
Well, this will be an interesting week. On the invitation of Snarrotin, the Icelandic civil liberties organisation, I’m off to Iceland for a series of talks and interviews on behalf of Law Enforcement...
View ArticleTaken to court.…
A fun interview with Heimir Már Pétursson on TV2, filmed during my recent tour of Iceland: Iceland TV 2 from Annie Machon on Vimeo. Taken to court.…
View ArticleRT article about MI6’s Afghan “ghost money”
Here’s a link to my new article, published exclusively today on RT’s Op-Edge news site. I discuss the recent news that MI6, in addition to the CIA, has been paying “ghost money” to the political...
View ArticleMI6 “ghost money”
Here’s the full article about MI6 “ghost money”, now also published at the Huffington Post UK: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has recently been criticised for taking “ghost money” from the CIA and MI6....
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NORML Conference, 18-19th May in Bristol
This coming weekend NORML UK will be holding its first AGM and national conference in Bristol. Mr Nice, aka Howard Marks, will be opening the event and speaking on the Saturday night during the two-day...
View ArticleDutch festival OHM — Observe, Hack, Make
Today I am limbering up to attend the Dutch geek festival, Observe Hack Make (OHM 2013). A lot of talks from whistleblowers, scientists, geeks, futurists and bleeding edge tech people. The visionaries?...
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OHM 2013 — Geeks and Drugs
As I have mentioned before, the Dutch geekfest Observe, Hack, Make (OHM 2013) was not just a chance for geeks to play with cool tech toys, the whole event also had a very strong political track. While...
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The Culture High
I had a fabulous time doing an interview on behalf of LEAP for the new anti-prohibition film, The Culture High. Made by Adam Scorgie, who directed the cult film, The Union, his new work promises to be...
View ArticleLEAP talk at Akzept drug conference in Bielefeld
Here’s a talk I did last week at the international Akzept Conference in Bielefeld about prohibition and the failed “war on drugs”: Akzept Kongress 2013 from Annie Machon on Vimeo. LEAP talk at Akzept...
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The war on drugs funds terrorism
Here is a short excerpt from a panel discussion I took part in after the London premiere of the new cult anti-prohibition film, “The Culture High”. This is an amazing film that pulls together so many...
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Russia — once again Public Enemy No 1
The last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, said at the celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall last weekend that we are facing a new Cold War. What are the geopolitical realities behind this...
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Keynote at Internetdagarna, Stockholm, November 2014
Here is my keynote speech at the recent Internetdagarna (Internet Days) conference in Stockholm, Sweden, discussing all things whistleblower, spy, surveillance, privacy and TTIP: Keynote at...
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Privacy as Innovation Interview
A recent interview I gave while in Stockholm to the Privacy as Innovation project: Privacy as Innovation Interview
View ArticleWar on drugs meets terrorism
Last month I had the pleasure of attending the biennial Drug Policy Alliance shindig in Washington on behalf of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (www.leap.cc). We also held our annual LEAP board...
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The US Election
No doubt you, as well as I, have been watching the 2016 USA presidential election with a sense of appalled fascination – has ever a campaign been fought so viciously in modern Western politics? But the...
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