Heather Brooke's new book, The Silent State, is out now.

It tells the full story of her investigation into MPs' expenses, but also goes on to say that it is just the tip of the iceberg. It was Heather who started all the work of exposing the dishonest expenses claims of our MPs.
See http://heatherbrooke.org.

Heather Brooke was a guest on Radio 4's Start the Week programme today

Heather Brooke: we should all be very grateful to her. It was she who started the work of exposing the dishonest expenses claims of our MPs.

Today she was on Radio 4's Start the Week in order to talk about her new book, The Silent State, which is due out next week. In it she draws attention to the lack of transparency at all levels of government, in contrast to the increasing erosion of privacy of ordinary citizens who have to provide more and more information to the State. See Heather Brooke: The Silent State.

You can listen to the programme on the BBC iPlayer

Heather Brooke presented an excellent report about MPs and the Westminster Gravy Train on Channel 4's Dispatches programme this evening.

She had put a monumental amount of work into it and was clearly committed to the causes of freedom-of-information and exposing corruption in high places.

See The Westminster Gravy Train