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Dawn goes Down Under

  • 11th July 2019
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Birmingham, Birmingham City council, Cllr Ian Ward, Cllr Robert Alden, Councils, DCLG, Featured, John Crabtree, Kerslake Review, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
It might appear that Birmingham city council changes its chief executives more regularly than its bins. News that Dawn Baxendale is leaving the local authority after little more than a

Council: Panel stands down, but recommends another one pop up

  • 2nd April 2019
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Birmingham, Birmingham City council, birmingham independent improvement panel, Councils, Featured, John Crabtree, Kerslake Review, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
The Panel set up to oversee improvements to Birmingham city council has disbanded itself and published its final report to Government, but has effectively recommended another body takes its place,

Council: Panel stands down, but recommends another one pop up

  • 2nd April 2019
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Birmingham, Birmingham City council, birmingham independent improvement panel, Councils, Featured, John Crabtree, Kerslake Review, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
The Panel set up to oversee improvements to Birmingham city council has disbanded itself and published its final report to Government, but has effectively recommended another body takes its place,

Birmingham City Council – a beacon (yes, you read that correctly)

  • 5th March 2019
  • Chris Game
  • Birmingham City council, Councils, Featured, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority
They’re a tricky business, industrial relations, and I normally steer well clear.  However, when the PM had the nerve, or desperation, at last week’s parliamentary Question Time to attack my

The ins, outs and whereabouts of fly-tipping

  • 19th February 2019
  • Chris Game
  • Birmingham, Birmingham City council, Chris Game, Councils, Featured, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, recycling
On the day Birmingham’s latest bin strike starts up, Chris Game throws a political dead cat on the table – well animal carcasses to be precise…. Do you ever use

Why voter registration matters

  • 30th January 2019
  • Chris Game
  • Birmingham City council, Chris Game, Councils, Featured, Local Elections, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
In 1967/68, while attempting concurrently to write a PhD thesis (no!) and earn enough to live (just!) , I had the good fortune to work as a research assistant to

130 years on – a council with lessons still to learn

  • 17th January 2019
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Birmingham City council, Cllr Ian Ward, Cllr John Clancy, Councils, Featured, Kerslake Review, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, Sir Albert Bore
This week, Birmingham has been marking 130 years as a city. It has much to celebrate – looking to both history and the future. But, as Kevin Johnson writes, the

So what WAS behind the Great Housing Stats non-revelation?

  • 8th January 2019
  • Chris Game
  • Chris Game, Councils, Featured, housing, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
It’s not, I promise, the main point of this blog, but I really don’t like the practice of percolating out New Year Honours Lists on any slow news day after

20,000 council employees made redundant since 2010

  • 7th January 2019
  • Chris Game
  • Councils, Featured, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
The lifestyle magazine, Esquire, reckoned that three really ‘Can’t Miss’ gifts for men this Christmas were a temperature-regulating ceramic mug, noise-masking sleepbugs and a mini-nap pillow. Now, I’m the last

Picking up food – don’t take the Mickey

  • 29th November 2018
  • Chris Game
  • Chris Game, climate change, Councils, DEFRA, Featured, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
There’s never been a Conservative Minister for Climate Change, which for many – especially younger voters – tells them everything they need to know about the party’s commitment in practice
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