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Professor John Diamond (Edge Hill University and ARVAC National Management Committee) writing in a personal capacity reflects upon the latest intervention from the centre : ” The Transforming Local Infrastructure initiatives is one of those centrally led ideas which appears to be a contradiction of what it says – is it transformative and is it […]

Professor John Diamond (Edge Hill Business School and a Management Committee member of ARVAC – writing in a personal capacity): ” The local election results in the England, Scotland and Wales at the start of the month appeared to confirm most of the predictions across the media – the Liberal Democrats lost (big time) – […]

As the excitement (generated by the media) over who will win in London increases and the media / political pundits obsess over the relative scores that Cameron or Miliband have to reach in order to justify their claims that they are “winning” a much more significant story is unfolding below the radar. There are two […]

There is a sense this past week when you have to blink to check that what you are reading is right. The headlines in the popular press have the Coalition in the UK (and the Conservative bit in particular) the champions of curbing tax avoiders. At the same time the last budget broadly favoured the […]

There will be a number of local referenda this May on whether we should (in some of the larger cities) opt for an elected mayor. In some places (including Liverpool) there will be elections for a directly elected mayor. This is the “big idea” to transform local politics. It was introduced by New Labour as […]