Viking on the loose

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Viking on the loose

Barbara
Fountain
Little Viking CR_hao-qin_on_Unsplash.jpg
It takes a stout heart to maintain access to official information [image Hao Qin on Unsplash]

Editor Barbara Fountain on the godsend and the pain in the butt that is our official information regime

It all started with the “umboosmaor”. That’s Old Norse for “representative”. By 1809, the Swedish had created the first “umbuds man” institution and f