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  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Peter Thiel
    A time for truth and reconciliation

    Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets

    Donald Trump with his wife Melania at an election night event in November 2024
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Financial Conduct Authority UK
    UK financial regulator failed to uphold rules for handling FOI requests, review finds

    Report calls for Financial Conduct Authority staff to be retrained and adds to mounting criticism of watchdog

    Financial Conduct Authority logo on a wall seen through a window
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Food & Drink
    The ultimate guide to the UK’s sovereign wine fund

    Data! Accountability! Plonk! The whole wine yards

  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Personal Finance
    HMRC Pandora Papers ‘nudge’ letters draw meagre response

    Almost 1,000 enquiries result in just 14 new disclosures of overseas income

  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    The Henry Mance Interview
    The activist sued by Elon Musk: ‘We have to show we will not be cowed’

    Imran Ahmed uses his Center for Countering Digital Hate to campaign against social media abuses

    Greg Kahn portrait picture of Imran Ahmed
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    News in-depthChinese politics & policy
    TED talks cross free speech ‘red line’ in Xi’s China

    Authorities cancel upcoming event citing breach of restrictions on foreign NGO activities

    An illustration of a microphone with the TEDx logo and the yellow stars of the Chinese flag
  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Social Media
    Supreme Court sides with tech giants over legal shield for content

    Justices decline to overhaul law protecting Google and Twitter from liability for material on their platforms

    The Twitter app on a mobile phone
  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    HM Revenue & Customs
    HMRC admits errors in responses to FoI requests over ministerial probes

    UK tax authority apologises for wrongly stating no ministers were under investigation — when Nadhim Zahawi was

    Nadhim Zahawi
  • Monday, 22 August, 2022
    Financial Conduct Authority UK
    FCA hit by rising vacancies and falling morale

    Treasury select committee to raise issues with financial regulator after data obtained by the FT cast fresh light on internal struggles

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  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Data PointsFederica Cocco
    UK political leaders need to beware Texan sharpshooter tendencies

    Everyone suffers if governments fail to use accurate and transparent data

    Arthur Balfour in formal dress with big moustache stands in front of an ornate gate
  • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
    Banx 
    Boris Johnson accused of ‘watering down’ ministerial code

    ‘Does this apply to me?’

  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
    Jamie Susskind
    It’s governments that need to protect free speech — not Elon Musk

    Platforms know their systems better than anyone but that doesn’t mean their moral and political choices should be outside the law

  • Monday, 30 August, 2021
    Chris Cook
    UK officials are going to great lengths to keep their secrets secret

    The Freedom of Information Act is being quietly gutted by civil servants

    There was no golden age of the FOIA: reporters always needed to disguise what they actually wanted
  • Monday, 16 August, 2021
    University of Chicago
    Education demands free speech plus inclusion, Chicago university chief says

    Robert Zimmer warns of threats to open discourse while unveiling $200m student aid pledge

    Robert Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago
  • Thursday, 3 June, 2021
    FT Magazine: Special editions
    Design special

    From furniture designer Ini Archibong to future fabrics, via department stores and Covid-era design

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    Cynthia O'Murchu
    UK information is becoming less free

    Government is turning down more FOI requests, making scrutiny harder

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    FT Series
    Holiday gift guide 2020

    From an album of precious family memories to sculptural jewellery, our tastemakers pick the most thoughtful gifts for the festive season

  • Sunday, 27 January, 2019
    UK regulator calls for expansion of freedom of information laws

    Grenfell Tower tragedy and Carillion collapse show need for urgent action, says information commissioner

    A worker guides down a sign showing the name of liquidated British construction and outsourcing group Carillion after it was taken down off a construction crane on a building site in the City of London on January 23, 2017.
									British construction and outsourcing firm Carillion, which has a variety of private and public service contracts in Britain and employs 43,000 staff worldwide, announced its immediate liquidation on January 15 after the heavily-indebted company failed to secure a last-minute financial rescue by the government and banks. / AFP PHOTO / Daniel SORABJIDANIEL SORABJI/AFP/Getty Images
  • Sunday, 27 January, 2019
    Elizabeth Denham
    The UK must close the private sector gap in the public’s right to know

    Freedom of information should cover the outsourcing companies who provide public services

    epa06443477 A Carillion crane at a construction site in London, Britain, 16 January 2018. Thousands of jobs in the UK and abroad maybe lost following the news that Construction company Carillion is to go into liquidation. Talks between lenders and the UK government has failed to reach a deal. EPA/ANDY RAIN
  • Wednesday, 15 August, 2018
    Heathrow expansion
    Call for Boris Johnson to repay cost of Afghanistan trip

    Bill for journey on day of Heathrow vote put at £20,000 so far

    FILE PHOTO: Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson walks to Downing Street in London, June 26, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
  • Monday, 9 July, 2018
    Banks
    Bank of England refuses to name donors who paid for Carney time

    Presidents Club scandal highlighted that individuals could pay to have tea with governor 

  • Thursday, 21 June, 2018
    UK politics
    Commons spent £2.4m on staff ‘gagging clauses’ over 5 years

    Use of non-disclosure agreements revealed after freedom of information request

    File photo dated 17/5/09 of the Houses of Parliament in London. The House of Commons has signed more than 50 non-disclosure agreements with employees over the last five years, official figures suggest. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday May 17, 2018. MPs described the findings as ÒdisturbingÓ and questioned the need for Ògagging clausesÓ deals in Parliament after the data was released by Liberal Democrat former minister Tom Brake, on behalf of the House of Commons Commission. See PA story POLITICS Confidential. Photo credit should read: Tim Ireland/PA Wire
  • Wednesday, 13 June, 2018
    UK politics
    Scottish government accused of attempts to ‘bury bad news’

    Damning report confirms suspicions that SNP delays media FOI requests

    EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - MARCH 16: First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon takes questions at First Minister's Questions inside the Scottish Parliament on March 16, 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sturgeon was facing questions in parliament for the first time since announcing her intentions to hold a second Scottish independence referendum following the UK's decision to back Brexit and leave the European Union. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
  • Sunday, 3 June, 2018
    UK politics
    Dearth of black students admitted to Cambridge revealed by FOI request

    One in 5 colleges admits fewer than 10 black students over 5-year period

  • Thursday, 12 April, 2018
    Accountancy
    UK accounting regulator rejected 90% of FOI requests

    Financial Reporting Council has answered just six questions during the past 5 years

    EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 17: A HBOS flag flutters in the wind at the headquarters on the mound in Edinburgh on September 17, 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The bank is in advanced merger talks with Lloyds TSB to create a banking giant. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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