Voters, according to Katie Ghose of the Electoral Reform Society, just don’t think local elections matter. True to form, we…
If you’re under 35 and not a trustafarian or an internet millionaire, did you seriously think you’d be retiring at…
In their 2008 book Nudge, Thaler and Sunstein dedicate a whole chapter, entitled Objections, to various criticisms of behavioural economics….
Ok, I thought, as I saw the news filter through that the Prime Minister had decided now was the time…
This article comes with a health warning: Share price is not a completely accurate reflection of the real value or…
In his 1941 essay collection, The Lion and Unicorn, George Orwell remarked that “In England patriotism takes different forms in…
Being anti tax-credit cuts puts you in a seriously eclectic camp. We have the Labour Party, the new and fragile…
Find your nearest stack of recent local government trade magazines and place your hands above them. Can you feel the…
There is something altogether tragic about the media furore surrounding the Kids Company charity. Positively Shakespearian. To some their maligned…
Productivity has been slowing down in the UK for a number of years now (and many other developed nations for…
In the final scenes of Don Giovanni, our titular protagonist is escorted down to the depths of the underworld. His maligned…
The idea of an ‘Intelligence Hub’ isn’t novel. There have been a range of attempts at creating a function that…
The late political thinker and pollster Philip Gould once remarked that historic moments of change can be marked up as…
The Independent Commission on Local Government Finance is right to call for councils to become financially self-sufficient. It makes a…
I hope the LGC Insider, the local government chief-executive-come-silhouetted-columnist, feels better after his Christmas break. His latest offering is bleak…
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