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Michael Burton is editorial director of The MJ

The public finances continue to perform better than expectations, although total borrowing is up ...

If you find the Brexit car crash all too depressing then why not lighten your mood with a flick t...

Blackburn with Darwen Council was named tonight as the Local Authority of the Year at The MJ Loca...

Michael Burton explains why he doesn't buy the Heathrow Airport's argument that benefits will str...

The former interim chief executive of Birmingham City Council, Stella Manzie, has been made a Dam...

District councils should be scrapped and 60 unitary counties created instead across England led b...

Ministers can hardly claim to be ill-informed about the choices ahead for social care. Barely a w...

Social care in England is at a ‘clear fork in the road’ between retaining the current system or m...

Politicians tinker with old people’s taxes at their peril; just ask Theresa May. The trouble is o...

A new report from CIPFA’s Brexit commission urges a planned strategy for maintaining EU workforce...