"Atkins solicitors has scored substantial damages for the former prime minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie Booth QC of Matrix chambers. The firm managed to settle a privacy complaint for the Blairs against Associated Newspapers…"

Maurice Frankel: "For the first time since 1997, a prime minister has not only spoken out clearly in favour of FOI but proposed to extend, rather than restrict, the legislation."

"In the few days leading up to the start of the Iraq War, Tony Blair had three phone conversations with Rupert Murdoch. … We are now aware of these calls because this information has been released by the Cabinet Office to the LibDem peer Lord Avebury"

Alistair Campbell talks to US public radio about Tony Blair’s relationship with the British media.

Nick Robinson on Cherie Blair’s last-minute swipe at the media: "Extraordinary. Gob-smackingly spine-chillingly hair-raisingly extraordinary."

"[The 'feral beasts' speech's] tone seemed mildly influenced by John Lloyd’s 2004 meisterwork What The Media Do To Our Politics… by the happiest of coincidences he does happen to be a director of the Reuters Institute."

Editor Patience Wheatcroft says a future government dedicated to openness and honesty would "abandon the effort by this discredited administration to try and limit the use of the Freedom of Information Act".

Ian Douglas on Tony Blair’s entirely predictable YouTube adventure: "261 comments and 24 video responses duly appeared and now we have answers to four of the easiest ones."