Anthony Glees - Revision history

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The making of a terror 'expert'

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Glees on 'The Stasi files'

David: /* Biography and career */

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Biography and career

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Resources

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 In September 2008 the ''Times Higher Education Supplement'' reported that Glees was to leave Brunel University and join the [[University of Buckingham]], Britain's only private university. There it was reported he would 'set up a Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies with the emphasis on practical experience rather than theoretical understanding.' Glees criticised what he called a culture of "condoning failure" in the state sector, which he claimed was endemic in publicly-funded universities. He dismissed claims that the [[University of Buckingham]] was "Thatcherite" and said, "If there's one-dimensional politics in British higher education, it's a left-of-centre to Marxist consensus in the state system." <ref>Melanie Newman, 'Culture in the state-funded sector condones failure, claims professor', ''The Times Higher Education Supplement'', 4 September 2008</ref>
-Glees gave his inaugural lecture as Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at Buckingham on 28 October 2008. His lecture was entitled ''Safeguarding our democracy: current themes in the study of Britain's secret agencies''.<ref>[http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sss/research/centres/bciss/teamhttp://www.buckingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2008/glees.html Press Release - Professor Anthony Glees], University of Buckingham, 30 October 2008.</ref> Along with his BUSCIS colleague Dr [[Julian Richards]], Glees heads [[Security and Intelligence Research Centre Ltd]].<ref>[http://www.sairc.co.uk/contact-us.php Contact Us], Security and Intelligence Research Centre Ltd, accessed 6 May 2009.</ref>
+Glees gave his inaugural lecture as Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at Buckingham on 28 October 2008. His lecture was entitled ''Safeguarding our democracy: current themes in the study of Britain's secret agencies''.<ref>[http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sss/research/centres/bciss/teamhttp://www.buckingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2008/glees.html Press Release - Professor Anthony Glees], University of Buckingham, 30 October 2008.</ref> Along with his BUSCIS colleague Dr [[Julian Richards]], Glees heads [[Security and Intelligence Research Centre Ltd]] (Company registration no: 6694451).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100501002042/http://www.sairc.co.uk/contact-us.php Contact Us], Security and Intelligence Research Centre Ltd, Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 1 May 2010 on 13 November 2017.</ref>
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 Glees gave his inaugural lecture as Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at Buckingham on 28 October 2008. His lecture was entitled ''Safeguarding our democracy: current themes in the study of Britain's secret agencies''.<ref>[http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sss/research/centres/bciss/teamhttp://www.buckingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2008/glees.html Press Release - Professor Anthony Glees], University of Buckingham, 30 October 2008.</ref> Along with his BUSCIS colleague Dr [[Julian Richards]], Glees heads [[Security and Intelligence Research Centre Ltd]].<ref>[http://www.sairc.co.uk/contact-us.php Contact Us], Security and Intelligence Research Centre Ltd, accessed 6 May 2009.</ref>
-==Glees on 'The Stasi files'==
+===Glees on 'The Stasi files'===
 Roger Morgan, writing in International Affairs (79/5, 2003), described the book as ‘unscholarly, sensationalist and deeply flawed’. More damning criticism came from John Sandford a leading light in the campaign for [[European Nuclear Disarmament]] GDR group which was active in promoting solidarity with the independent East German peace movement.  Glees seems to have undergone something of a conversion on the GDR group.  According to Sandford's account:

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	<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">'''Anthony Glees''' is a reader in history at Brunel University. His research interests include German politics, British-German relations, German transformation since 1989; Germany’s new political culture with special reference to the impact of human rights abuses, truth and reconciliation issues in respect of the former German Democratic Republic. <ref>OpenDemocracy, [http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Anthony_Glees.jsp Anthony Glees] (accessed 30 March 2009)</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">'''Anthony Glees''' is a reader in history at Brunel University. His research interests include German politics, British-German relations, German transformation since 1989; Germany’s new political culture with special reference to the impact of human rights abuses, truth and reconciliation issues in respect of the former German Democratic Republic. <ref>OpenDemocracy, [http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Anthony_Glees.jsp Anthony Glees] (accessed 30 March 2009)</ref></blockquote>

		+	===The making of a terror 'expert'===
	In the course of 2005, Glees emerged as a 'terrorism expert' consulted by the media. He appears to have emerged as an expert after the London bombings on 7 July 2005, when he was consulted as an 'intelligence expert' to comment on the alleged failure of the intelligence services to predict that attack. <ref>e.g. 'Anthony Glees discusses improving anti-terrorism intelligence', Weekend All Things Considered, NPR, 8:00 PM EST 9 July 2005</ref> By this time Glees had spent several months compiling a report for the right wing think-tank the [[Social Affairs Unit]] on extremism in British Universities. <ref>Polly Curtis, 'They don't sit with a sign recruiting for terrorists', ''Guardian'', 19 July 2005</ref>		In the course of 2005, Glees emerged as a 'terrorism expert' consulted by the media. He appears to have emerged as an expert after the London bombings on 7 July 2005, when he was consulted as an 'intelligence expert' to comment on the alleged failure of the intelligence services to predict that attack. <ref>e.g. 'Anthony Glees discusses improving anti-terrorism intelligence', Weekend All Things Considered, NPR, 8:00 PM EST 9 July 2005</ref> By this time Glees had spent several months compiling a report for the right wing think-tank the [[Social Affairs Unit]] on extremism in British Universities. <ref>Polly Curtis, 'They don't sit with a sign recruiting for terrorists', ''Guardian'', 19 July 2005</ref>

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 * Interview by Philip Williams ABC News Australia Europe correspondent, [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-11/two-very-different-perspectives-on-the-secuirty-vs/4745184 Two very different perspectives on the security vs privacy debate] Buckingham University's Anthony Glees vs Mike Harris from Index on Censorship on the intelligence leaks debate. Aired 10 June 2013
 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20061012235913/http://www.dkrenton.co.uk/glees_report.html Dave Renton's Blog] on Glees in 2006.
-*[http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=2025274 Glees report on terror riles v-cs] Phil Baty, Times Higher Education Supplement, Published: 14 October 2005
+*Phil Baty, [http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=2025274 Glees report on terror riles v-cs] ''Times Higher Education Supplement'', Published: 14 October 2005
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 * Interview by Philip Williams ABC News Australia Europe correspondent, [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-11/two-very-different-perspectives-on-the-secuirty-vs/4745184 Two very different perspectives on the security vs privacy debate] Buckingham University's Anthony Glees vs Mike Harris from Index on Censorship on the intelligence leaks debate. Aired 10 June 2013
-*[http://www.dkrenton.co.uk/glees_report.html Dave Renton's Blog] on Glees in 2006.
+*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061012235913/http://www.dkrenton.co.uk/glees_report.html Dave Renton's Blog] on Glees in 2006.
 *[http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=2025274 Glees report on terror riles v-cs] Phil Baty, Times Higher Education Supplement, Published: 14 October 2005

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 *[http://www.dkrenton.co.uk/glees_report.html Dave Renton's Blog] on Glees.
 *[http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=2025274 Glees report on terror riles v-cs] Phil Baty, Times Higher Education Supplement, Published: 14 October 2005

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 ===Mass surveillance===
 Glees has appeared several times on BBC media<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18884460 19 July 2012</ref> to dismiss privacy and other objections to the Draft Communications Data Bill ("Snoopers' Charter", CDB). He has also appeared before parliamentary select committees on the CDB<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/documents/joint-committees/communications-data/uc170712ev4HC479iv.pdf Uncorrected transcript], 17 July 2012</ref>, and control orders, arguing in vague terms that state action against terrorism, serious organised crime and paedophilia outweighs privacy, but was unable to distinguish between targetted and mass surveillance.  One attempt by an MP to describe Glees' position was: "There is wrongdoing happening online; we could collect information about it, hence we ought to". On control orders Glees stated that: "I do not believe that civil liberties and liberty generally are undermined by effective, proportionate and accountable intelligence-led security policy. I think that’s a complete nonsense."<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/documents/joint-committees/Draft%20ETPIMS%20Bill/JC%20on%20Draft%20EPIMS%20Bill%20-%20consolidated%20oral%20evidence%20PUBLISHED.pdf Joint Committee on Draft Enhanced Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill], 24 October 2012</ref>
-By way of explanation Glees added, "In 2003, I wrote a book about the East German intelligence service, commonly known as the Stasi. If you have a look at a real surveillance society, which is what communist East Germany was, in 1989, the last year of the Stasi’s existence, there was one Stasi member to every seven East German citizens. In Britain today, there is one MI5 officer to every 7,000 citizens". <ref> House of Commons, House of Lords, [http://www.parliament.uk/documents/joint-committees/communications-data/Corrected%20Transcript%20170712ev4HC479iv.pdf CORRECTED TRANSCRIPT OF ORAL EVIDENCE To be published as HC 479-iv, ORAL EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE DRAFT COMMUNICATIONS DATA BILL, TUESDAY 17 JULY 2012, NICK PICKLES, JIM KILLOCK, RACHEL ROBINSON and ANGELA PATRICK, PROFESSOR ANTHONY GLEES and DR JULIAN RICHARDS], acc 25 April 2013 </ref>
+At a separate committee hearing Glees had argued that, "In 2003, I wrote a book about the East German intelligence service, commonly known as the Stasi. If you have a look at a real surveillance society, which is what communist East Germany was, in 1989, the last year of the Stasi’s existence, there was one Stasi member to every seven East German citizens. In Britain today, there is one MI5 officer to every 7,000 citizens". <ref> House of Commons, House of Lords, [http://www.parliament.uk/documents/joint-committees/communications-data/Corrected%20Transcript%20170712ev4HC479iv.pdf CORRECTED TRANSCRIPT OF ORAL EVIDENCE To be published as HC 479-iv, ORAL EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE DRAFT COMMUNICATIONS DATA BILL, TUESDAY 17 JULY 2012, NICK PICKLES, JIM KILLOCK, RACHEL ROBINSON and ANGELA PATRICK, PROFESSOR ANTHONY GLEES and DR JULIAN RICHARDS], acc 25 April 2013 </ref>
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