Jo from English Pen writes, “Thanks to Edward Snowden’s leaks about the secret surveillance of all our communications by intelligence services in the UK and US, privacy is one of the biggest stories of the day. None of us can be sure now that our emails or phone calls are ever confidential, so this is something we should all be worried about. At English PEN there’s a discussion next Wednesday 11 December at 630pm, with some experts on the subject and it should be a lively debate – with writer Alan Judd, former MI6 director for operations Nigel Inkster and Ian Brown, director of the Oxford Internet Institute. It’s chaired by English PEN’s director Jo Glanville at the Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3GA.”