When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
From Heather Brooke
I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.
There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.
If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.
What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other.
What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.
There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that there is more need than ever to have experienced information processors - people who can look through this mass of data.
The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.
There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn't yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve any secret society well.
There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data... They don't want their industry publicised.
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