"The Information Commissioner needs to be an independent and fearless champion of both data protection and freedom of information, with the resources to run an office that is efficient enough to be taken seriously"

If the Information Commissioner needs to be all these things, why has the ICO shown itself to be as ball-less as a castrato choirboy?

One word: PHORM - The ICO should have taken names and kicked major arse. It didn't.

There's more chance of my opening the batting for the West Indies than the ICO being a peoples' champion and standing up for our privacy.