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Transparency watchdog ‘blunted’ by staff shortage
PHIL MILLER reveals how staff shortages at the Information Commissioner’s Office are placing the public’s ‘right to know’ in jeopardy
A quarter of the total backlog at the Information Commissioner's Office relates to complaints about the Police Service of Northern Ireland
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A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
BRITAIN’S transparency watchdog is so short-staffed that the public’s “right to know” is under threat, experts have told the Morning Star.
Their stark warning is the latest development in our investigation into the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which we revealed last month has just two staff at its Belfast bureau.
The stressed-out pair have to handle complaints about freedom of information (FOI) requests that have been rejected by scores of public bodies across Northern Ireland.
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