FoI Across The Pond

News about the UK government back-pedalling on the FoI Order is watched by British ex-pats across the pond, such as dominichamon:

Net-based pressure forces UK government to cancel plans to make MPs’ expenses secret - Boing Boing

The words ‘hope’ and ‘change’ are being bandied around rather a lot at the moment, but it’s stories like this that actually deserve those epithets.

This is a fantastic example of how democratic politics is supposed to work: The people spoke, their MPs heard, and change was effected.