For the digital revolution, this is the Robespierre moment | Simon Jenkins

Total disclosure means the onset of a new terror, a retreat to a kind of sofa government beyond freedom of information

I am about to lose my journalist's ticket, my union card, my media cred. I think Tony Blair is right. He was, as he says, "a naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop" to have passed the 2000 freedom of information act in the form he did. In blowing apart the 30-year rule on government secrecy, he threw out the baby with the bathwater.

Blair made almost all public documents...