local government
Liverpool City Council has worked out that deploying artificial intelligence across its children's social care service will save the authority roughly £150,000 by the end of the 2027-28 financial year. The council's overall budget gap for the same period is upwards of £29m. Put the
housing
Ronesha's younger son needs a fridge for his medication. For seven weeks last year, in a bed and breakfast in England, he didn't have one. The stay itself was already unlawful — the law caps a family's time in a B&B at six
Conservative Party
Crewkerne South is a seat that did not exist a year ago, and almost nobody outside the Yeovil constituency could have located it on a map until Tuesday. That was when the Conservative Party selected as its candidate a man who spent three years in prison for posting antisemitic material
devolution
Central government in this country collects more than 90p of every pound raised in tax. The OECD average is 53p. Britain is not merely centralised, it is an outlier among outliers, the kind of number that should embarrass a Treasury official into silence at a dinner party and somehow never
local government
Sometime this month, letters will go out to council leaders in the fourteen remaining areas of England, the ones spared judgment in March, when Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Hampshire learned that forty-three of their counties and districts would be dissolved into fifteen new unitary councils. Hundreds of councillors' seats