Posts Tagged ‘freedom of information’
Telegraph may have paid £300,000 to criminals for scandal leak, it emerges
Ex-SAS major John Wick exposed as broker in sale of expenses secrets - The Times So, how much did you think the Telegraph paid for the information it's been publishing for the last ten days? £10,000? £50,000? More? According to the Times, the data CDs -- which, no matter how much we have a right to see them, it appears may have been [...]
Telegraph should not be so smug
MPs' expenses: the story that changed politics There is more than one thing wrong with Britain's public life. The Daily Telegraph's glee at publishing a set of expenses which were going to be published shortly anyway, and its smugness at engineering 'one of the biggest parliamentary scandals in British history' (its own rather pompous words) is [...]
Still no action that deserves the name
The story so far: Last year, Tory and Labour MPs combined to talk out and vote down proposals to make MP expenses subject to Freedom of Information legislation. This year, courts finally ruled that MP expenses had to be revealed anyway. The other week, the Daily Telegraph bought a data-set of the expenses, in what it loosely termed an [...]
Victory for democracy, but the system needs an overhaul
BBC NEWS | Politics | MPs info exemption plan scuppered Liberal Democrats Simon Hughes and Norman Baker — with cross-party support — successfully 'talked-out' a bill by a former Tory chief whip which would have exempted MPs from the Freedom of Information laws which parliament itself introduced to make bodies such as the NHS, the [...]
