Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 17/1/2025 – #FOIFriday
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…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 10/1/2025 – #FOIFriday
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…
How to make your first graph in Flourish
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…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 3/1/2025 – #FOIFriday
The FOI Act turned 20 on Wednesday (January 1). As is traditional at this time of year, we'll be marking it with a bumper round up of FOI stories that…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 20/12/2024 – #FOIFriday
It's a bit good news/bad news FOI-wise this week. Martin Rosenbaum scored a tribunal victory. It ordered the release of the secret citations former prime minister Boris Johnson sent to…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 6/12/2024 – #FOIFriday
Nobody fights a three-year FOI battle for the clicks. A couple of weeks ago, FOI Friday covered the Romford Recorder's battle to get a report into a dossier of racism…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 29/11/2024 – #FOIFriday
Don't make FOI officers dig through your cat memes to get to the information related to the FOI request. Speaking at Holyrood’s Freedom of Information 2024 event at Verity House…