Mark was listening to Start the Week on Radio 4, and after listening to Victor Mayer-Schonberger discussing his new book "Delete - the dangers of remembering in the digital age" was inspired to Google his name. There are lots of Mark Dawsons in the world so at first glance not very interesting, but after a bit of refining the search, he was surprised (and, whisper it, a little pleased) to find this article on the Daily Telegraph website about the suppression of a "secret" arms report.
Mark had no idea that he had been written about in such an august publication, which included a quote from his internal memo on the release of the National Audit Office's report on the British Al Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia, released under Freedom of Information legislation some three years on.
More of Mark's memo is quoted on the FOIA Centre website. We wonder what other gems from our past are out there waiting to be discovered.
1 comment:
I KNEW it! Mark, you really have that 'look' about you.
Trouble.
Josh.
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