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Healthy High Streets – can we trust the measurers?

  • 22nd November 2018
  • Chris Game
  • Birmingham, Councils, Featured, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
To the 45th President of the United States, and quite possibly the 42nd, the first image conjured up by the initialism HDH could well be High Dollar Hooker. To me,

Brexit: Corbyn might as well measure up the curtains

  • 13th November 2018
  • Paul Dale
  • Boris Johnson, Featured, Jeremy Corbyn, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
Now that we are approaching the endgame, I decided to test the waters with a Brexit-supporting chum. His dogged reply was the same as it has been for a year

Was HRA cap-scrapping really the biggest thing since Thatcher?

  • 12th November 2018
  • Chris Game
  • Chris Game, Councils, Featured, housing, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
Your starter for 10, as they say on University Challenge: What was recently described and by whom as “absolutely massive, the single biggest piece of news since Thatcher was in

C4 disappointment must lead to focus on skills and local investment

  • 2nd November 2018
  • Andrew Howell
  • Andy Street, Arts, Cllr Ian Ward, Featured, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, skills, WMCA
Channel 4’s decision to move to Leeds underlines the need for a long term commitment to creative industries development in the West Midlands, writes Andy Howell in the second part

C4: a real case of Surprise, Surprise

  • 2nd November 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Andy Street, Arts, Devolution, Featured, Liam Byrne, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, Sion Simon, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
This week’s news on the outcome of Channel Four’s search for a new National HQ was, of course, disappointing writes Kevin Johnson in the first of a 2-part special feature. 

Budget18: a local government perspective

  • 29th October 2018
  • Chris Game
  • Chris Game, Featured, Local Government Association, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
It’s Budget Day, in case you didn’t already know, so Chris Game gives a local government perspective on the annual economic statement.  A Monday budget – for Halloween-avoiding or debate-enabling

Farewell Deadly Doug

  • 12th October 2018
  • Andrew Howell
  • Aston Villa, Featured, Opinion, Partner Posts, Recommended
So, farewell Deadly Doug. I doubt professional football will see his like again, writes Andy Howell. I knew Doug from quite an early age and although our encounters became less

Stop bidding, begging & bowing to Treasury – but how?

  • 10th October 2018
  • Chris Game
  • Chris Game, Councils, Devolution, Featured, George Freeman, John McDonnell, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
One October long ago, shortly before England won the World Cup, my first final-year undergraduate essay was on something then rather exciting: the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) – the

‘Illegal budgets’ – I’m no Corbynista, but this was media mischief

  • 1st October 2018
  • Chris Game
  • Councils, Featured, Jeremy Corbyn, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
I wasn’t going to bother.  I mean, if you get into a state every time the Labour leader answers a TV interviewer’s tricksy question with the first words that come

‘Illegal budgets’ – I’m no Corbynista, but this was media mischief

  • 1st October 2018
  • Chris Game
  • Councils, Featured, Jeremy Corbyn, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
I wasn’t going to bother.  I mean, if you get into a state every time the Labour leader answers a TV interviewer’s tricksy question with the first words that come
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