Simon Parker questions whether Osborne's push to 'grow the cake' will result in a good deal for l...
Devolution is an assault on local democracy, or so we were told last week by Labour’s new communi...
Britain’s approach to welfare is starting to change, writes Simon Parker.
Simon Parker considers the democratic shortfall as we rush towards devolution
The bargain that councils have with their workforces is starting to come apart at the seams, writ...
The first five years of David Cameron laid the foundations for a project that local government no...
Director of the New Local Government Network think tank, Simon Parker, asks what the future holds...
Simon Parker argues for the random selection of councillors and peers from the citizenry as a mea...
If the Local Government Association (LGA) didn’t exist, we would have to invent it. The question ...
Spending reductions implied by the chancellor would mean shifting from the post-war welfare model...
