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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsGovernment given formal warning over personal data failuresInformation Commissioner’s Office reprimanded seven organisations for causing people ‘significant distress’
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsTruss and Sunak’s teams had worst transparency records in WhitehallRevealed: Tory leadership hopefuls both led teams with an 'awful' record for Freedom of Information
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Why government tried to shield £800m research agency from scrutinyGovernment forced to release discussions after information rights watchdog rules in openDemocracy’s favour
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Published in: Home: InvestigationBoris Johnson refuses to publish his official pandemic diariesExclusive: Government blocks release of 18 ministers’ calendars – including those of the PM and Matt Hancock
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Published in: Home: NewsSunak’s jobs scheme left young people in debt and failed to vet employersExclusive: Under-25s were treated like ‘free bodies’ under the government’s £1.9bn Kickstart project
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Published in: Home: AnalysisMinisters’ attacks on judges threaten UK democracy, warns new reportGovernment attacks risk giving the impression that the courts are being pressured to rule in Boris Johnson's favour
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Published in: Home: OpinionTo ‘level up’, the UK needs a real jubilee: a mass write-off of debtsEven before cost of living crisis, the poor owed the government – or, the Crown – £16bn. Why not just write it off?
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe Online Safety Bill endangers us by ignoring digital threats to democracyIn Russia, Putin's propaganda reminds us of the risk of online manipulation. Why are our MPs failing to address it?
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisThe UK can sanction Russian luxury property. But will it?As tension heightens over Ukraine, experts say targeting the Russian elite’s UK property would be difficult – and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsHow Jacob Rees-Mogg’s new Brexit post could make him richerThe new minister for Brexit opportunities is thought to have a 12% stake in an $8bn investment fund that specialises...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIf Tory MPs want to protect freedom, why are they supporting the Elections Bill?Let’s not suffer from selective liberalism. Civil liberties are for life, not just for Christmas rebellions
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI missed my grandma’s last Christmas as Downing Street partiedIt’s one rule for the British government and another for everybody else: a lockdown for us, a party for them
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe UK government is looking to profit from closing borders to asylum seekersAs the UK government pushes its Borders Bill through Parliament, it also makes a sales pitch to other states wanting...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionEngland and Wales’s Police Bill threatens anyone with a cause they believe inIt now proposes new crimes that could criminalise almost any protester and give police alarmingly wide powers of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionUK’s transparency watchdog has a terrible transparency record of its ownThe Information Commissioner’s Office, headed by Elizabeth Denham until last month, is failing to stick to its own rule book
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionNew lobbying ban wouldn’t have stopped Owen Paterson from taking second jobYet again, Parliament’s standards watchdog has botched the rules for MPs – proving that they shouldn’t be allowed to...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsCabinet Office’s actions ‘increase suspicion’ about secretive FOI unit, MPs toldThe government department refused to allow a probe into its ‘Orwellian’ Clearing House unit in the wake of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe UK government’s plan to reform data-protection laws are terrifyingEverything that Cambridge Analytica did would probably be legal under these new plans
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionBritish politics is an oligarchs’ cocktail party. Tory ministers are the waitersThe recent onslaught of government sleaze shows once again why the UK has been called ‘the most corrupt country in the world’
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsMPs inundated with complaints from voters over Tory sleaze scandalSome Tory MPs hit back at voters over ‘destruction’ of Owen Paterson, while others admit being ‘deeply unhappy’...
