You may be interested to hear what the UK Government (don't you just love 'em) has recently enacted: The freedom of information act. This is great on paper. It means that anyone asking civil servants about the work they do has to be answered in the most accessible and transparent way (one would imagine this would mean telling the truth) However, guidelines have been sent to Government employees to tell them what questions they are not allowed to discuss if they are asked by a member of the public. All e-mails that have been sent by Government Ministers to their departments are to be erased after something like three weeks. Yet it has been the reporting and whistle-blowing of these e-mails that have brought the corrupt element of Government to the public arena (and have caused the resignation of a fair few)
Double standards indeed from Blair and co. Three cheers the e-mail in this regard!
