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Post-It Notes
[Kelly Sikkema / Creative Commons]
MINISTERS in Tony Blair’s government were advised to use Post-it notes for sensitive messages to avoid having to release them under new Freedom of Information, according newly released official files.
The Labour government passed the Freedom of Information Act (FoI) in 2000.
But there was growing disquiet among ministers and senior officials at the implications as the full implementation date approached on January 1 2005.
Our political sphere, stripped of its popular component by decades of neoliberalism, sits apart from the public, writes COLL MCCAIL citing a telling parallel with the writings of French revolutionary Abbe Sieyes
JOHN GREEN has doubts about the efficacy of the Freedom of Information Act, once trumpeted by Tony Blair
