So documents about Thatcher have been declassified. What about the rest? | Deborah Orr

From minutes of European council meetings to documents on the Scott inquiry, we are still being kept in the darkThe annual excitement that is the release of hitherto classified documents from the National Archives is upon us. This year an unusually high number have been withheld by the Cabinet Office. The reason given for continued secrecy is, of course, national security. When, I think we are all asking ourselves, is someone going to start tackling the problem of national insecurity, which is e