July 2025

One Viagra Dataset, Two Great Performances

Freedom of Information, NHS / Matthew Davis

You’re 432 rows deep in an NHS spreadsheet, questioning your life choices, when something unexpected pops up: a man aged 102, prescribed Viagra on the NHS. It turned out to be the oldest patient in the country recorded as receiving erectile dysfunction treatment — and the basis for an exclusive that ran in the Sunday […]

Crime, Freedom of Information, Politics

FoI is like a box of chocolates – You never know what you’re going to get

Crime, Freedom of Information, Politics / Matthew Davis

It was the great philosopher Forrest Gump who famously once said: “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.” Well as I sit in front of my computer screen opening up Freedom of Information Act e-mail responses I have some of those very same feelings on the vicissitudes

July 2025

One Viagra Dataset, Two Great Performances

FoI is like a box of chocolates – You never know what you’re going to get

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