Tag: Local Authorities

Councils in England face financial woes due to poor governance, not lack of funds, says the Office for Local Government.

Canary Wharf, London's bold 1990s financial district, is in decline. But why are we surprised when the Left-wing councils surrounding it have been allowed to strangle it, says J. Sorel.

'Red Wall Toryism' was said to be more authoritarian, more economically statist and, somehow, gruffer, than its southern cousin. But this was a mistake; the 'Red Wall' is not a foreign country.

Local authorities are spending millions planting trees as part of a virtue-signalling exercise designed to show they’re ‘tackling’ climate change. But with little or no aftercare, the trees often fail to survive.