Ministers and many local authorities are reluctant to take the decentralising path because they f...
George Jones and John Stewart consider Scottish plans to swap the council finance system over to ...
In the flurry of reports last month, the Ministry of Justice’s paper on engagement passed unnoti...
A new book on the recent round of local government reorganisation alleges that the process which ...
George Jones and John Stewart argue why they are opposed to directly-elected mayors
George Jones and John Stewart support many of the proposals in the recent Councillors’ Commission...
David Cameron’s proposal for local referenda on council taxes is a retread of a suggestion by Mic...
'Wicked' issues are unsolved and hard-to-resolve problems - and local government encounters them ...
Gordon Brown's plans to consider the constitution include councils, but they should be seen as mo...
In ‘Brown’s constitutional challenge’ (The MJ, 21 June), we put forward tests to assess Gordon B...
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