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The Cabinet Office & FOI, A Retrospective, 2010-2011

21st February 2012
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 |  Cabinet Office, FOI, I saw Francis Maude in the Lake District and he has a fine head of hair for a man his age, ICO, Transparency

As you know, FOI is under threat from a disparate coalition of interest groups, all of whom profess strong support for the idea of FOI and transparency in principle, but who object strongly when it applies to them. As I have already blogged, it’s the FOI equivalent of saying ‘I’m not racist but..” With friends […]

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The War on Freedom of Information

6th January 2012
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 |  FOI

Years ago, I was told what I assumed was an apocryphal story that New Labour had intended to remove the commitment to Freedom of Information from the draft of the 1997 General Election Manifesto, but someone had forgotten to do so. Saddled with this albatross, the politicians lied through their teeth and pretended they were […]

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