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Articles by Bob Neill

Agile action on the road to reform

By Bob Neill | 26 August 2023

The whole process upon which local government funding is based, including the formula determining...

We must escape the time warp

By Bob Neill | 09 November 2022

Following the latest push for reform resulting from the recent report on English devolution by th...

Delivery failure

By Bob Neill | 04 October 2022

Responding to the chancellor’s fiscal statement, Sir Bob Neill says self-avowed free marketeers s...

Tightening the squeeze

By Bob Neill | 08 March 2022

Gestures, big and small, will continue to be necessary as part of the collective effort to counte...

Helping our homeless

By Bob Neill | 01 February 2022

The scale of the success of the Everyone In initiative in tackling rough sleeping should not be u...

Cultural steps can get us back on our feet

By Bob Neill | 07 December 2021

While evidence is growing that shows how important the arts can be for our health, Bob Neill says...

A bounce back Budget

By Bob Neill | 02 November 2021

We got spending – and lots of it – in the Budget, yet its contents reflected conflict within the ...

Redrawing the boundaries

By Bob Neill | 16 June 2021

Parliamentary Boundary Commission proposals to change constituency boundaries have the potential ...

A mixed bag for councils

By Bob Neill | 02 December 2020

While Sir Bob Neill says there was much in the Spending Review to applaud, ‘what’s ultimately nee...

Talk to councils first on COVID

By Bob Neill | 22 September 2020

The centre’s lack of communication with councils on crucial aspects of COVID policy – including t...