Good news, bad news FOI-wise this week. On the positive side, Ben Worthy has been looking at the ways in which FOI works. Broadly, it's popular - more than one…

Slightly different this week. While the round-up of FOI stories is the same (see below), this is a chance to get creating them rather than just reading about them. If…

This week, a cultural interlude, with a show about the US Freedom of Information Act - featuring bluegrass music and public records - reaching the UK. And then some FOI…

*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…