The massive advances in technology commonly referred to as the digital revolution have already had a profound impact...
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Theo Blackwell Articles
A digital revolution for public services
By the end of the decade users of public services will expect to access what they want 24/7, by a variety of digital...
Championing decentralisation
Last year Jon Cruddas talked of Labour’s new ‘statecraft’ where we ‘push power downwards and build a new kind of state...
Tory council tax ruse could come home to roost
Up and down the country town halls will be preparing their election year budgets. Many Tory councils facing yearly or...
Boris’s blind advocacy of bankers’ bonuses will backfire
By the end of this month the world's biggest investment banks are expected to pay out more than £40 billion in...
Old hands and constant renewal are key to keeping Labour vibrant
The late Roy Jenkins once opined that the mark of a steadfast prime minister was to take a poor set of local elections...
Nurture the grassroots
The late Roy Jenkins once opined that the mark of a steadfast prime minister was to take a poor set of local elections...
Local matters
A rather patrician MP, I forget who (although I suspect Roy Jenkins), once counselled that the mark of a steadfast...
Penalty power
Up and down the country local councils increasingly have at their disposal the power to issue civic penalties or...