David Hamilton 🏴🇺🇦
@da.vidh.scot
Scottish Information Commissioner.
Volunteer Aid Worker in Ukraine and Bosnia. Charity trustee
Volunteer Aid Worker in Ukraine and Bosnia. Charity trustee
This another of these huge public interest cases where you have to wonder if requests for information on Prosecutorial decisions shouldn’t be tested by FOI regulators.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
Why has the UK dropped its trial of two alleged China spies?
Prosecutor hinted at lack of backing from Downing Street but legal experts argue prosecution was still possible
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This another of these huge public interest cases where you have to wonder if requests for information on Prosecutorial decisions shouldn’t be tested by FOI regulators.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
Seriously impressed with Canada’s approach to disinformation. Lots to learn for UK & Scotland so we can protect elections. Eg at last Canadian elections 5 office holders tasked with protecting elections considered Intel from security agencies & briefed media on disinformation.
October 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Seriously impressed with Canada’s approach to disinformation. Lots to learn for UK & Scotland so we can protect elections. Eg at last Canadian elections 5 office holders tasked with protecting elections considered Intel from security agencies & briefed media on disinformation.
It’s Recruitment time again…
This time I’m looking for a Business Support Manager to join our @foi.scot team
Full details at
www.foi.scot/current-vaca...
This time I’m looking for a Business Support Manager to join our @foi.scot team
Full details at
www.foi.scot/current-vaca...
October 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It’s Recruitment time again…
This time I’m looking for a Business Support Manager to join our @foi.scot team
Full details at
www.foi.scot/current-vaca...
This time I’m looking for a Business Support Manager to join our @foi.scot team
Full details at
www.foi.scot/current-vaca...
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Today, 52-year-old Ilona Revut has died in a shelter in Kyiv due to an acute reaction to stress.
A beauty parlor where Ilona was hairstylist wrote of her death.
Russia doesn't always kill with direct strikes.
Many Ukrainians have serious health issues after surviving Russian attacks.
A beauty parlor where Ilona was hairstylist wrote of her death.
Russia doesn't always kill with direct strikes.
Many Ukrainians have serious health issues after surviving Russian attacks.
September 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Today, 52-year-old Ilona Revut has died in a shelter in Kyiv due to an acute reaction to stress.
A beauty parlor where Ilona was hairstylist wrote of her death.
Russia doesn't always kill with direct strikes.
Many Ukrainians have serious health issues after surviving Russian attacks.
A beauty parlor where Ilona was hairstylist wrote of her death.
Russia doesn't always kill with direct strikes.
Many Ukrainians have serious health issues after surviving Russian attacks.
July 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
“I hope this serves as the wake-up call that NHS Forth Valley need. Their FOI response times over the last 18 months have been terrible.”
🗞️📢 @nhsforthvalley.bsky.social on a final warning before @foi.scot issues "a highly unusual" and unprecedented enforcement notice. Failure to comply with that would be reported to the Court of Session as Contempt of Court.
Read more 👉 www.foi.scot/sites/defaul...
Read more 👉 www.foi.scot/sites/defaul...
July 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“I hope this serves as the wake-up call that NHS Forth Valley need. Their FOI response times over the last 18 months have been terrible.”
How come we’re not called the British and Irish Leopards?
June 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
How come we’re not called the British and Irish Leopards?
If only ScotGov had asked those who have been there. 🤷🏻♂️
Military medical aid is civil medical aid in many parts of Ukraine. Army medics treat civilians. A ridiculous caveat which will endanger the lives of the people the aid was intended to help.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/snp-...
Military medical aid is civil medical aid in many parts of Ukraine. Army medics treat civilians. A ridiculous caveat which will endanger the lives of the people the aid was intended to help.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/snp-...
SNP bans Ukraine from sending NHS donations to front lines
Ministers accused of ‘morally bankrupt hypocrisy’ after government officials demanded that £800,000 of medical supplies be used for ‘civilian purposes only’
www.thetimes.co.uk
June 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
If only ScotGov had asked those who have been there. 🤷🏻♂️
Military medical aid is civil medical aid in many parts of Ukraine. Army medics treat civilians. A ridiculous caveat which will endanger the lives of the people the aid was intended to help.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/snp-...
Military medical aid is civil medical aid in many parts of Ukraine. Army medics treat civilians. A ridiculous caveat which will endanger the lives of the people the aid was intended to help.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/snp-...
Last week I was driving from.Satajevo to Split for the first tine in 30 years. Gave me the chance to visit Mostar and it's famous ottoman bridge as last time I was there it had been blown up by Bosnian Croats and a rope bridge erected in its place!
June 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Last week I was driving from.Satajevo to Split for the first tine in 30 years. Gave me the chance to visit Mostar and it's famous ottoman bridge as last time I was there it had been blown up by Bosnian Croats and a rope bridge erected in its place!
Yikes, the @foi.scot workload record has been smashed again. Following Aprils biggest ever number of new cases (80), May has seen another 15% increase on that to 92. We’re working flat out and are now 2/3 way through the historical backlog. Our intervention progress work is suffering though.
June 6, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Yikes, the @foi.scot workload record has been smashed again. Following Aprils biggest ever number of new cases (80), May has seen another 15% increase on that to 92. We’re working flat out and are now 2/3 way through the historical backlog. Our intervention progress work is suffering though.
Another European airport and another chorus of complants and outrage at #Brexit from queues of Scots stuck at border security. Who the hell voted for this?
June 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Another European airport and another chorus of complants and outrage at #Brexit from queues of Scots stuck at border security. Who the hell voted for this?
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NHS Fife rebuked by watchdog over Sandie Peggie FOI failures
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2519592...
@andrewlearmonth.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2519592...
@andrewlearmonth.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
NHS Fife rebuked by watchdog over Sandie Peggie FOI failures
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2519592...
@andrewlearmonth.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2519592...
@andrewlearmonth.bsky.social
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Day 177 of a non-stop #GeorgiaProtests.
Let me remind you that GD banned using fireworks at the protests in January.
Let me remind you that GD banned using fireworks at the protests in January.
May 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Day 177 of a non-stop #GeorgiaProtests.
Let me remind you that GD banned using fireworks at the protests in January.
Let me remind you that GD banned using fireworks at the protests in January.
Two charities I am involved with, run entirely by volunteers, have just learned that @microsoft.com is slashing its software support for charities.
This despite posting $70 billion in the last quarter, up 13.7%. This is their right and we’re grateful for past donations but…really?
This despite posting $70 billion in the last quarter, up 13.7%. This is their right and we’re grateful for past donations but…really?
May 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Two charities I am involved with, run entirely by volunteers, have just learned that @microsoft.com is slashing its software support for charities.
This despite posting $70 billion in the last quarter, up 13.7%. This is their right and we’re grateful for past donations but…really?
This despite posting $70 billion in the last quarter, up 13.7%. This is their right and we’re grateful for past donations but…really?
This really is appalling.
www.parliament.scot/about/news/n...
A total failure of oversight by the Board.
The danger is a knee jerk reaction that impacts on all the public bodies for which this kind of behaviour is an anathema.
www.parliament.scot/about/news/n...
A total failure of oversight by the Board.
The danger is a knee jerk reaction that impacts on all the public bodies for which this kind of behaviour is an anathema.
Catalogue of failures led to issues at Scotlands water watchdog
www.parliament.scot
May 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
This really is appalling.
www.parliament.scot/about/news/n...
A total failure of oversight by the Board.
The danger is a knee jerk reaction that impacts on all the public bodies for which this kind of behaviour is an anathema.
www.parliament.scot/about/news/n...
A total failure of oversight by the Board.
The danger is a knee jerk reaction that impacts on all the public bodies for which this kind of behaviour is an anathema.
For info, Whilst we need to be cautious about comparing apples and pears, the last 4 quarter stats for Scottish Govt were 56% for full release.
www.foi.scot/statistics
www.foi.scot/statistics
May 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
For info, Whilst we need to be cautious about comparing apples and pears, the last 4 quarter stats for Scottish Govt were 56% for full release.
www.foi.scot/statistics
www.foi.scot/statistics
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There are some extremely brave FOIA officers in the federal government - and this is a reminder that they often want to get the information out as badly as the public wants to read it.
In response to @freedom.press FOIA request, ODNI declassified & released an intel memo contradicting a key claim Trump made to invoke the Alien Enemies Act
Confirms reporting the Trump admin characterized as false & used to justify weakening limits on leak inquiries
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...
Confirms reporting the Trump admin characterized as false & used to justify weakening limits on leak inquiries
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...
Spy Agencies Do Not Think Venezuela Directs Gang, Declassified Memo Shows
The release of the memo further undercuts the Trump administration’s rationale for using the Alien Enemies Act to deport scores of Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador.
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
There are some extremely brave FOIA officers in the federal government - and this is a reminder that they often want to get the information out as badly as the public wants to read it.
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President Emmanuel Macron showed how his trip to Kyiv unfolded.
"There can be no dialogue while civilians are being bombed at the same time. What we need now is a ceasefire so that negotiations can begin. For peace," he said.
"There can be no dialogue while civilians are being bombed at the same time. What we need now is a ceasefire so that negotiations can begin. For peace," he said.
May 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
President Emmanuel Macron showed how his trip to Kyiv unfolded.
"There can be no dialogue while civilians are being bombed at the same time. What we need now is a ceasefire so that negotiations can begin. For peace," he said.
"There can be no dialogue while civilians are being bombed at the same time. What we need now is a ceasefire so that negotiations can begin. For peace," he said.
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When people complain about red tape and health and safety gone mad, remember it's tragedies like this that we have learned from.
May 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
When people complain about red tape and health and safety gone mad, remember it's tragedies like this that we have learned from.
The issue of Significant Adverse Event Reviews (SAER) in the NHS is a complex and sensitive one. My full statement can be read at
www.foi.scot/statement-pu...
www.foi.scot/statement-pu...
Statement on the publication of Significant Adverse Event Review reports by the NHS | Scottish Information Commissioner
Statement on the publication of Significant Adverse Event Review reports
www.foi.scot
May 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The issue of Significant Adverse Event Reviews (SAER) in the NHS is a complex and sensitive one. My full statement can be read at
www.foi.scot/statement-pu...
www.foi.scot/statement-pu...
Much entertainment at breakfast this morning by the bomber diving wood pigeons.
May 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Much entertainment at breakfast this morning by the bomber diving wood pigeons.
In a week where we remember those who died fighting evil 80 years ago, let us also remember those who continue to do so.
May 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
In a week where we remember those who died fighting evil 80 years ago, let us also remember those who continue to do so.
Finally, finally after 2 baths, 3 showers and a sauna, I have cleansed myself of yesterdays #Knoclkhill mud. Great team building with the JKS Karate team.
May 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Finally, finally after 2 baths, 3 showers and a sauna, I have cleansed myself of yesterdays #Knoclkhill mud. Great team building with the JKS Karate team.
Brown and white belt awarded today. 2 more to Black (and a lot of hard work ahead!)
May 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Brown and white belt awarded today. 2 more to Black (and a lot of hard work ahead!)
He's done it again.. My super talented nephew Pat Hamilton has released another storming track. Available on all platforms....
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May 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
He's done it again.. My super talented nephew Pat Hamilton has released another storming track. Available on all platforms....
sndo.ffm.to/dz7apkx
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