Henry Manners

Open government or Tower of Babel? By Des McConaghy

PF’s news story provided a dismal report of the Treasury’s Combined Online Information System (‘Online Treasury data fail to excite’, June 11–17). This initiative seems just part of the new drive to publish as much data as possible – whether the information is useful or even intelligible. The story referred to ­Professor Colin Talbot’s doubts about this Coins database. Read more...

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