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...
The Lyons report is a major contribution to the development of local government in the 20th centu...
New powers to enact bye-laws without Whitehall permission could be a boon to local authorities’ ‘...
No-one has explained why it was essential to issue the White Paper on local government in October.
The Government is pushing for directly-elected mayors – and there is talk of directly-elected cab...
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