Circus

Congratulations to The Independent for work on the background to a little FOI snippet we found last week. It's the Socrates project at BBC Monitoring in Caversham, which turns out to be a contract between the BBC and Autonomy. It looks like a failed £8.3m project, and we now need to know who paid what to whom in "settlement".

Mention should also be made in (coded) despatches, to the original inquirers and commenters, including Oliver Lacon, Connie Sachs and Tufty Thesinger.