Religious orders must keep their moral and financial commitments

ISN’T that some legacy the government inherited?

We always knew it was a mess, but (at least in my case) the full scale of the picture only began to emerge when I started ploughing through some documents published last week.

These are the briefing notes prepared for incoming ministers by a variety of officials in the Department of Finance. Notes like these have never been published before, and even though these notes have bits blacked out in them, it’s both historic and refreshing to be able to read them. I know these documents were published under the Freedom of Information Act, but I hope it’s going to be part of the style of the new government that they’ll put as much of this information as they can in the public domain from now on — just as I hope they’ll keep their promise to strengthen freedom of information, by the way.