EDM 492—primarily sponsored by Jo Swinson—is now up on the Parliament EDM site. EDM 492 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (PARLIAMENT) ORDER 2009 19.01.2009 Swinson, Jo That this House notes with concern the provisions in the Freedom of Information (Parliament) Order 2009 to remove the expenses of hon. Members and Peers from the scope of the Freedom of Information Act; notes that this Order singl...

Please lobby your Members of Parliament to prevent them from exempting the details of their expenses from Freedom of Information Act requests, Specifically ask them to vote against the draft Freedom of Information (Parliament) Order 2009 (.pdf), this Thursday. FOIA campaigner Heather Brook clearly lays out the case for full disclosure and transparency of MP's expenses, just as is routine in t...

The World Economic Forum now ranks Sweden as the second-most competitive economy on earth, behind only Switzerland. According to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom (compiled by the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation), Sweden offers greater business freedom, trade freedom, monetary freedom, investment freedom, financial freedom, freedom from corruption,

Via Bishop Hill, it seems that a Liberal Democrat, Jo Swinson, has put forward an EDM against the disgusting idea that MPs' expenses should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. TEXT OF EARLY DAY MOTION Freedom of Information (Parliament) Order 2009 Primary Sponsor: Jo Swinson (LD, East Dunbartonshire) That this House notes with concern the provisions in the Freedom of Information (Parlia...

There is only one service they can do the nation now. It is to stand not upon the order of their going, but go. The damage that they have done to Britain is immeasurable. Our ancestors built a land of pride and hope and confidence in the future, a land whose influence grew out of all proportion to her size, whose constitution guaranteed a balance between freedom and order which used to be the Brit...

Consider the basic liberal rights - freedom of expression, freedom of religion and so forth. All bar a lunatic fringe would support them, yes? Nope: The data charted above has been extracted from a report by WorldPublicOpinion.org, and while many other countries were polled on all or some of the issues, I have limited the chart to the UK, US, France and as a contrast Nigeria. In order to keep the ...

A backbench Lib Dem MP has named Ryan Giggs as the footballer at the centre of the controversial gagging order that has triggered calls among MPs for a full debate on privacy and freedom of speech

This blog has never had a link to order-order.com*, home of serial referrer to himself in the third person Guido Fawkes/Paul Staines. So I am pleased to welcome all converts to the pure and gentle world of freedom from Staines. More seriously, my longstanding complaint about Paul is not that he’s outrageous or so on, it’s that

David Davis The Landed Underclass highlights what IMHO is the abiding problem about freedom versus tyranny. In ordinary social intercourse, libertarians believe that spontaneous order (call it Law, if you will) will arise because intelligent animals discover co-operation and agreement to be the best policy. Liberty of course is the mother of this kind of order,

From : guido.fawkes@order-order.com To : foiteam@cabinet-office.xxxxxxx Dear Sirs, Further to my Freedom of Information Request and Subject Access Request made under the provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) on March 27, 2009, please can you assure me that you will be including all emails to and from Damian McBride and The Daily Telegraph in the days before he