Claire Fox ponders the dichotomy of openness in a world which restricts free speech on blogs, while expecting private exchanges to be available under Freedom of Information rules.

It is not often I feel the urge to congratulate the judiciary. But I positively cheered when Mr Justice Beaton found in favour of Welsh councillor, Lewis Malcolm Calver, and called the decision to censure him for comments on his blog a 'disproportionate interference with his right to freedom of expression'.