Boris Bootcamp
Boris Johnson's campaign reports: Loads of students and graduates from across London got a rallying cry from Mayor Boris Johnson… Read more »
Getting rough sleepers off the streets in Westminster
Cllr Daniel Astaire, the Cabinet Member for Society, Families and Adult Services on the real way to help the vulnerable Westminster… Read more »
Local elections 2011: The battle for Blackpool
As a unitary council with all the seats up for election on May 5th, Blackpool will be an important battleground…. Read more »
Relaunch for Back Boris website
Tim Montgomerie You can view the new website and its features here. The new site which draws from US online… Read more »
The disaster of mixed ability language teaching
John Bald, an independent educational consultant, a blogger on how children fail to learn foreign languages in mixed ability classes Before… Read more »
The LGA fat cats
One useful role for the Local Government Association could be offering Town Halls some tips of streamlning layers of senior… Read more »
Government urges councils to review funding for union posts
An interesting Parliamentary Question: Trade Unions Andrew Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what… Read more »
Harrow Council’s transparency u-turn
Last July I noted how Labour-run Harrow Council rejected a Conservative proposal for transparency – including spending transparency. All the… Read more »
Council fat cat’s new job with League Against Cruel Sports
Joe Duckworth has a new job as Director of the League Against Cruel Sports "charity." The previous LACS Chief Executive… Read more »
Council byelections from yesterday
Tunbridge Wells Borough – Pembury: Lib Dem 578, C 460, Ukip 297. (May 2010 – C 1884, Lib Dem 1287)…. Read more »
Rochdale Lib Dem councillor defects to Conservatives
Cllr Mohammad Shariff, a Lib Dem councillor in Rochdale until December, has now joined the Conservatives. He says the local… Read more »
Shapps criticises councils over Supporting People budget cuts
Housing Minister Grant Shapps is among the signatories to a letter to the Daily Telegraph this morning criticising councils for… Read more »
Hutton’s half measure on pensions
Glyn Gaskarth laments that Lord Hutton favours retaining a centralised statist approach to public sector pensions The Independent Public Service… Read more »
Why won’t the police act against anti-gay thuggery in Tower Hamlets?
by Paul Goodman Anna Farquhar is the Chairman of Wiltshire Involvement Network (WIN). At a meeting of the organisation, she… Read more »
Councils hammer scouts
The Scout Association (TSA) revealed today that thousands of Scout Groups across the UK are being subjected to enormous rent… Read more »