SKWAWKBOX launches Telegram channel
As the SKWAWKBOX has covered, over the last year and more the established social media channels have been making more and more changes to restrict the visibility of alternative news […]
Tag Archives: freedom of information
Huge double scandal as May’s personal rendition cover-up ignored by BBC TV news and most MSM
In what should be one of the biggest political scandals of the decade, the UK’s Prime Minister Theresa May personally blocked a powerful parliamentary committee’s access to witnesses and evidence about […]
North Tees avoiding FOI on new hospital scale & ‘business case’
I’ve written previously about developments at North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Trust, which has attempted to bully staff into accepting the degradation of their pay and conditions, even going to […]
DWP spent NOTHING on assessing impact of DLA/PIP change?
I’ve written more than once about the government’s multifaceted attack on disabled people, from demonisation in soundbites and via its media allies (even via the Paralympics) to the assault on […]
Petition: make private providers of public services subject to the FOI Act – and why we need it
On Sunday, the Guardian published an article online revealing that private healthcare providers have been advised to get ready for a “£20 billion NHS bonanza” as NHS services are increasingly […]
The 28 measures the South-West pay cartel is considering against staff
I believe that the information in this article is being made public for the first time. I’ve written on several occasions about the series of Freedom of Information requests I […]
Was Lansley sacked for lie & u-turn on SW NHS pay cartel?
On 7 August, I wrote about the Department of Health’s response to my FOI request about its communications with the South-West Pay, Terms & Conditions Cartel Consortium, and how the emails it provided in response […]
BBC dodges yet another FOI re DH communications
A few weeks ago I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the BBC concerning communications between its Health Correspondent Fergus Walsh and the Department of Health. The aim […]
Staggering: zero-hours contracts in the NHS
In my analyses of monthly employment stats, I’ve written about ‘zero-hours contracts‘, and the matter has been receiving some media attention over the last week or two. ZHCs, as the […]
Govt lies, then refuses Leveson testimony FOI ‘in the public interest’!
In the time that I’ve been using the FOI Act to try to uncover government misdeeds, misinformation and downright lies, I’ve seen some very varied responses, but this just about takes […]