The silent state / Heather Brooke.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Windmill, 2011.Description: xiv, 274 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780099537625
- 0099537621
- Transparency in government -- Great Britain
- Democracy -- Great Britain
- Freedom of information -- Great Britain
- Government information -- Great Britain
- Democracy. -- (OCoLC)fst00890077
- Freedom of information. -- OCoLC)fst00934017
- Government information. -- (OCoLC)fst00945364
- Politics and government -- (OCoLC)fst01919741
- Transparency in government. -- (OCoLC)fst01154902
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 2007-
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1997-2007
- Great Britain. -- (OCoLC)fst01204623
- 352.3809 BRO
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Award-winning investigative journalist Heather Brooke exposes the shocking and farcical lack of transparency at all levels of government. At a time when the State knows more than ever about us, Brooke argues that without proper access to the information that citizens pay for, Britain can never be a true democracy.
* SECRECY*- anonymous bureaucrats, clandestine courts, men in tights and the true cost of 'public' information. * PROPAGANDA* - spin, PR and bullshitting by numbers. The British government spent e38m more on advertising last year than their closest competitor, Proctor and Gamble - find out what they spent it on! *SURVEILLANCE* - discover the extent of Britain's network of databases spying on ordinary citizens, *EXPENSES* - read, for the first time, the exclusive and definitive account of Brooke's five-year campaign to have MPs' expenses revealed, which rocked the nation and transformed Britain's political landscape.
Originally published: 2010.
Includes index.