Tag: local government
On yer bike!
Puru Miah looks at low traffic neighbourhoods, questions bike-induced road closures and sees a new "tale of two cities" in London
For a progressive English regionalism
Paul Salveson makes the case for a complete overhaul of UK government structures to rebalance power and decision-making currently dominated by London and the South
The great Covid-19 swindle
Tom Miller says austerity continues for councils
Power to the people?
Duncan Bowie asks what power and what people in a discussion of devolution, spatial equity and socialism
Local government on the brink
Duncan Bowie explains how eight years of an austerity straitjacket has pushed many councils to the verge of collapse. But does Labour have an...
Local change-makers
Bob Littlewood on prospects for Labour councils in the face of continuing austerity
Haringey – the first ‘Corbyn Council’?
As campaigning mounts for local council elections in May, Pete Chalk reflects on prospects for Haringey’s incoming Labour councillors
It’s crunch time for local Labour
Tom Miller on holes in the dented shield
Local government is looking increasingly threadbare in the face of austerity. The trend adopted by ‘localist’ Conservatives has been to cut and...