Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files

INCLINATIONS BOOK CLUB

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Kate Wilson discussing her book Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2025) and what we have learnt from the ongoing Undercover Policing Inquiry.

Following revelations about Mark Kennedy and the growing spycops scandal, Kate took on the Metropolitan Police for breach of human rights – and won. She had a one-year relationship with ‘Mark Stone’ in 2003, but years later discovered he was a police officer, part of a unit that infiltrated political groups, forming sexual relationships and spying on hundreds of innocent civilians. Hear her discuss how it took her over a decade to uncover part of the eerie truth about Britain’s secret political police, what we have learnt from the disclosure of thousands of secret police files, and why her story and fight matter to all of us.

Kate Wilson is a life-long campaigner and her landmark victory in the trial 'Wilson v the Commissioner' (2022) established that British undercover police operations targeting her movements were unlawful and ‘unnecessary in a democratic society’, and consistently violated basic human and political rights.

Following on from our Glasgow premiere of The Spies who ruined our Lives at the Glasgow Women’s Library in February 2025, this will be an opportunity to engage with these issues more deeply and hear the latest news from the ongoing Undercover Policing Inquiry which has now entered its 11th year.

Books will be on sale at the event.

‘Gripping’ Olivia Laing, Guardian

‘Astounding ‘ Stuart Jeffries, Observer

‘Shocking’ City A.M.

‘Awe-inspiring’ Oliver Bullough

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