Revealed: Tory MP allegedly demanded campaign cash to pay ‘bad people’

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Absolutely fascinating documents released under #FOI by govt on correspondence and meets with Fujitsu, developer of the Horizon IT system

If you are at #SPANC24 and have a nose for investigations, please do join me for my class on how journalists can get the most out of freedom of information requests at 2.30 today!

Editors from the Mail, Guardian, Times and Telegraph united in an attempt to bolster an anti-SLAPP bill going through Parliament - also backed by George Greenwood Peter Geoghegan @ democracyforsale.substack Bill Browder richard brooks and others - many with direct experience of SLAPPs pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/edit…

Very concerning that the National Archives are closing what were previously public records on apparently flimsy grounds argued by public bodies.

While it's possible to fight these closures historians may not always have the resources to do so, impoverishing public understanding.

I'll be running a class on how young reporters can get the most out of using freedom of information requests for their investigations alongside a stellar cast at #SPANC24

A decision by the FCA to put its FOI team under the control of its communications department, responsible for massaging the agency’s public image, appears to have been pushed for by a former official spokeswoman for ex-PM David Cameron.

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Outstanding FOI timeliness from one council

Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Jaguar cars built in UK factories are still being sold in showrooms in Moscow and St Petersburg two years after sanctions came into force, as they are channelled through Russia's neighbours.

With Tom Witherow Jessica Sharkey Tom Saunders

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Luxury cars are still being sold in Russian showrooms two years after the government imposed tough sanctions. I analysed the trade data to find out how much is being channelled through Russia's neighbours.

With Tom Witherow George Greenwood Tom Saunders 👇
thetimes.co.uk/article/britis…

Experts have raised national security concerns after a government research and development institute which works with the aerospace and nuclear industries signed a major contract for a supercomputer with Chinese electronics firm Lenovo.

With Nina de Roy dos Santos

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Experts have raised security fears over a multimillion pound deal with a Chinese technology firm to build one of the UK’s new supercomputers, as ⁦George Greenwood⁩ & I have written in The Times and The Sunday Times today. thetimes.co.uk/article/securi…