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Expenses map shows power of underused reporting tool

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • May 14th, 2009

Until today I had not noticed that the Guardian put on the web a month ago mapped data from the earlier, and limited, release of information about MPs expenses.
Charles Arthur in the Technology section today alerts us to the item he put on the Datablog on April 3. And his suggestion that there should be [...]


You have to learn to live with moles

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • May 13th, 2009

Its odd that members of parliament who approve of the police paying informers cry foul when a newspaper pays a supergrass for information that reveals their own misdeeds.
They moan about journalists who are paid more than they are, being gleeful about the revelations of the details of their expenses. Well some journalists may be paid [...]