Tag Archives: Transparency

Opening up data to give people what they want

Posted on Monday October 17th 2011 by Fiona Melville

I am shamefully late to this (catching up on articles from 2 weekends ago…) but this article by Ben Goldacre in the Observer encapsulates so much of why governments get stuck in actually DOING anything. For the record, I am … Continue reading →

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Will Social Media lead to a more ‘honest’ politics?

Posted on Thursday September 29th 2011 by Nick Denys

On Monday Professor Matthew Flinders presented a Radio 4 documentary called “In Defence of Politics”. The thesis was that while healthy scepticism from the electorate towards those who represent them is a good thing, the corrosive cynicism expressed by the … Continue reading →

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Political politics

Posted on Saturday September 24th 2011 by Fiona Melville

This week, Chris Cook in the FT (on blackberry so no link) revealed that some Department for Education Special Advisers were using personal email accounts to organise various bits of their work. As with the revelation that some officials had … Continue reading →

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E-petitions are a good way to hold our politicians to account

Posted on Monday August 8th 2011 by Fiona Melville

The e-petitions site is back! Well, once it had recovered from the first day’s surge of interest… When the police stats website first went live, it too crashed under the weight of demand. I spoke to someone who had been … Continue reading →

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How can Cameron stop hackgate contagion?

Posted on Wednesday July 20th 2011 by Nick Denys

The heat is on. As David Cameron and his team jetted back from Africa the one topic of conversation would have been “how do we contain hackgate?” An IPSOS MORI poll reveals that 52% think Cameron has handled hackgate badly, … Continue reading →

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