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Standard Loan Clonmel Library Main Collection 352.3809 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 30026000070739

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.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Heather Brooke is a freelance journalist and Freedom of Information campaigner famous for uncovering the MPs' expenses scandal. She is a visiting professor at City University's Department of Journalism and is also the author of Your Right to Know . In 2009 she was named Reformer of the Year and won the Setting the Political Agenda Award from the Political Studies Association.

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