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Inside View: Keeping a lid on it

Mark Conrad looks at how there is little escape for the public sector from the glare of public scrutiny.

As former ‘model dad footballer' Ryan Giggs would acknowledge, there is little escape from the intrusive glare of public scrutiny in the 21st century.

Nowhere is this clearer than in the public sector, where – perhaps more justifiably than in the gossip-fuelled world of Twitter – lawyers, ministers, journalists and even judges who aren't obsessed with ‘super injunctions' now readily interpret the term ‘the public interest' to mean ‘the public domain'.

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