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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealed: UK’s most secretive think tanks took £14.3m from mystery donorsopenDemocracy has relaunched the Who Funds You? campaign into think tanks and transparency. Here’s what we found
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Published in: 50.50: NewsGovernment ignores calls for evidence behind ‘conversion therapy’ U-turnShadow equalities minister Anneliese Dodds calls out ministers’ failure to protect trans people
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Published in: Home: NewsTold you so, says campaigner who warned about Sue Gray’s pastJason Evans said he was ‘not surprised’ by claims information had been omitted from Gray’s partygate report
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsBoris Johnson’s government slammed by MPs over FOI 'Clearing House' secrecyParliamentary inquiry launched in the wake of openDemocracy's revelations condemns Cabinet Office's handling of...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: Feature9 times public authorities refused to answer questionsopenDemocracy is leading more than 100 journalists and MPs in calling for the Freedom of Information Act to be...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsEditors and MPs urge watchdog to act over escalating government secrecyopenDemocracy leads campaign to enforce transparency laws as government accused of abusing Freedom of Information...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsTories fined £17,800 as Boris Johnson accused of lying about flat refurbThe prime minister personally contacted a Tory donor on WhatsApp to ask for help funding his redecoration, Electoral...
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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: Freedom of Information: NewsTory minister says transparency laws are ‘malign’Lord Callanan accused the public of having ‘forms set up on their word processors’ to submit FOI requests ‘with gay abandon’
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsUK peers face tighter rules on financial interests, after openDemocracy investigationExclusive: Members of the House of Lords will have to provide details of companies they have ‘significant control’...
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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: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealing Johnson’s talks with BP not ‘in public interest’, UK government saysExclusive: Details of secretive meeting between the PM and the oil giant among crucial climate documents the Cabinet...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionI told the UK Parliament how to fix corruption… nobody listenedThe Owen Paterson scandal doesn’t surprise me; MPs shouldn’t be trusted. That’s why Westminster is plagued with scandals
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Published in: Freedom of Information: OpinionOn transparency, like so much else, the UK government is shifting the goalpostsThe government dismissed damning openDemocracy report on FOI as ‘complete nonsense’ – I wasn’t surprised, I’ve seen...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsCabinet Office blocked probe into government secrecyMPs told that the department is ‘utterly failing’ transparency laws at parliamentary inquiry
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsTory advisers allowed to ‘approve’ government Freedom of Information repliesExclusive: Campaigners criticise ‘deeply suspicious’ practice that allows SpAds to vet transparency disclosures
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Published in: Freedom of Information: News2020 was worst year on record for UK government secrecyExclusive: Landmark openDemocracy report exposes depth of the government’s attack on the Freedom of Information Act
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsTransparency group that helped introduce UK FOI law faces closureThe Campaign for Freedom of Information has launched a crowdfunder to raise £50,0000 after ‘serious shortfall’ in funding
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsAlan Sugar among 24 lords to have broken finance rules, parliamentary watchdog rulesExclusive: Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes also among peers named in official UK ruling, following an...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: FeatureIn the UK, government secrecy is growing. Here's how we fight backOn International Right to Know Day, here’s what openDemocracy has exposed about the threat to Freedom of Information
