An article by Chris Galley, our Research Director, appeared on the Index on Censorship today in response to the Public Administration Select Committee’s newly released proposals to protect civil service whistle-blowers:

When it was discovered, in November last year, that I was the source of a series of Home Office leaks that caused considerable embarrassment to the government, the police didn’t waste any time. They arrived at my flat at dawn, searched me, confiscated many of my possessions and treated me in the same way as a terror suspect. Then the Home Office “advised” me in the strongest possible terms that I should wait out the weekend and the ensuing press frenzy in an RAF base. I did as I was told.

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Published on August 12th, 2009 by Mike Rouse