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Blowing hot and cold

01/06/2011

A brightly-coloured ‘heat map’ which claims to show levels of local council spending is inaccurate and misleading, says Chris Game

The blame game

06/05/2011

Local authorities have a good record when it comes to council tax collection rates, but we need to look beyond the ‘shock, horror’ headlines to get a more accurate picture, says Chris Game

Electoral swings and roundabouts

14/04/2011

The key theme for May’s council elections may be the scale of Labour’s continuing local recovery at the expense of the two coalition parties, suggests Chris Game

The minister who doubled up as mayor

12/02/2009

The French justice minister, Rachida Dati, may have made headlines internationally for her complicated political and private life, but of interest to local government is how she combined the role of minister with being mayor of a Paris district, says

Laying down the law locally

10/09/2008

Before councils get excited about plans to let them introduce their own byelaws without Whitehall consent first, Chris Game reminds us of the pitfalls ahead.

All power to sharing

05/09/2007

The change to the Scottish local government landscape last May obscured the fact that a major proportion of English councils also run without overall control or with power sharing. Chris Game looks at the figures

Dancing to a different tune

16/08/2007

So what to councillors and morris dancers have in common? Quite a lot, says Chris Game.

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