freedom of information Articles

‘So’ – Laura says – ‘I lost’. A mix of sympathy, disappointment, frustration hit me all at once. The education tweeters among you might have guessed that I am talking about a recent David and Goliath battle between Michael Gove and my friend/blogger/journalist Laura...

Blink, and you might have missed the news this week that a panel of judges has decided that Prince Charles’ letters to government ministers are covered by the Freedom of Information Act. Well, not all of them. The prince has been sharing his views with ministers for...

The Queen's Speech is nearly upon us. It seems likely that the coalition government – having pushed through many of its ‘reforms’ in the first two years of the parliament – will present a relatively slimline legislative agenda (preferring to focus on deficit...

The future of the United Kingdom, the economy placed on negative outlook, visits to the Vatican, Paris and Edinburgh – parliament may have been in recess last week but politics continued apace. They return to Westminster today facing a packed parliamentary agenda, not...