Councils are designed primarily to achieve ‘economies of scope’ not economies of scale – and bigger brings disadvantages as well as benefits, writes Barry Quirk
Godzilla was 50 metres tall in the original 1954 Japanese film, Gojira. By the time of Hollywood’s 2021 version, Godzilla was 120 metres tall. Bigger is better, right?
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