Sexual allegations about 81 BBC staff have been reported since the Jimmy Savile scandal came to light - with almost half still working for the corpora...
Nearly 1,000 doctors and surgeons have criminal records including child porn and sexual assault offences, it was reported on Friday. Some 927 physi...
It seems strange that a public body whose job it is to instill public trust in crown servants demonstrates such a lack of transparency.
Former justice minister Jack Straw has defended the controversial decision to block the release of correspondence between Prince Charles and ministers...
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The government has been accused of orchestrating a "royal cover-up" after it vetoed the publication of letters sent to ministers by Prince Charles. ...
The internet has been a tremendously effective tool for freedom and development, but that could now unravel should proposals tabled for WCIT come to fruition.
Why isn't Lord Justice Leveson holding a Public Inquiry into Hillsborough? After all, it involves the press, the police, a blatant cover-up lasting years, politicians and the establishment actively assisting that cover-up, judges going along with the concealment of the truth, taxpayer funded public services lying, distorting and doctoring evidence...
'Your Scotland, Your Future', he tells us. Then come clean: have you received legal advice that undermines your understanding of an independent Scotland's status in the EU, or have you not even bothered to find out?
Criminal damage, thefts from cars and burglaries were not investigated by police after cuts to a force's budget, it has been reported. Devon and Co...
Former prime minister Tony Blair has been criticised for failing to cooperate with a report into the Freedom of Information Act. Sir Alan Beith, ch...
The Information Commissioner has warned that heath secretary Andrew Lansley's repeated refusal to publish the NHS Risk Register "marks a significant s...
A 94-year-old man discharged alone at 1am and an 80-year-old man sent home wearing just pyjamas, who died several hours later, are two examples of wor...
Paedophiles, violent thugs and drug dealers were among more than 4,000 offenders who applied to become teachers last year despite having almost 10,000...
Nearly 850 registered sex offenders are at large, with nearly 700 of them missing for more than a year, it has been reported. One has been off the ...
Department for Education staff repeatedly destroyed official government correspondence, it has been reported. According to the Financial Times (FT)...
Lawyers should be able to put questions to some witnesses appearing before Commons committees to help stop MPs probing issues such as phone hacking lo...
Universities have raised nearly £50 million from fining students for overdue library books, figures have revealed. Top of the pile was Leeds Unive...
Freedom of information laws should be amended so Cabinet ministers can have "real discussions" without worrying that arguments will be made public, th...
Yesterday the Constitution Unit at UCL published a fascinating report, Town Hall Transparencyhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/research/foi/foi-and-local-government/town-hall-transparency.pdf, assessing the impact that Freedom of Information has had on local democracy and government in England.
Hundreds of children are being detained at the UK's ports and airports, figures have shown. A total of 697 children under 18 wer...
An unauthorised autobiography of Julian Assange has been published despite attempts by the WikiLeaks founder to block its release. Assange had orig...
Michael Gove and his advisers are being investigated by the Information Commissioner following allegations they used private email accounts to avoid F...
THERE will be a great deal of suspicion generated by the government's decision to appeal against an order to make public Hillsborough documents relati...
PRESS ASSOCIATION - Prime Minister David Cameron is ordering a raft of information to be made public about the way hospitals, schools, courts and tran...
