*sarcastic* But I thought Freedom of Information WAS a waste of money. In a totally not embarrassing move, Brewdog founder James Watt has launched an unofficial government watchdog, Shadow Doge,…
Another weekly FOI round-up and some more of the greatest hits... But after last week's encouragement to use FOI for road-related campaigning, here's another good example of FOI in action.…
We love FOIs (unsurprisingly). And we love potholes (well, not so much after having to spend my Saturday patching a bike tyre, but they're an FOI classic). Now, happily, they're…
Sometimes it seems no one ever learns. George Greenwood, an investigative reporter at The Times, has written about the *extensive* emails and documents that went on in the background about…
With the FOI Act recently turning 20, the Manchester Evening News is looking back on the information revealed by the Act - both the national scoops and the paper's own…
After an 18 month FOI dispute, we finally have the official reasons Boris Johnson provided with his resignation honours list for giving peerages to Charlotte Owen and Ross Kempsell (after…
Want to start creating your own data visualisations? Flourish is a great (mostly) free tool for turning your datasets into great looking graphs and charts. It's pretty simple to get…