The phrase 'value for money' is one which keeps cropping up in the public sector lately as councils and other agencies try to prove that they are spending tax payers money wisely.Read
The convention since the demands of the spin merchants began to dominate politics is that leaders keep a surprise announcement or two for their keynote speeches, budgets and so on.Read
The orange liveried easyJet airline's no-frills business model has inspired many imitators with its central idea that customers pay a low price for the basics and everything else is charged as an optional extra.Read
Attending the mammoth 90-minute question time session at the city council meeting, you would be forgiven for thinking that the only issue of any concern to anyone is wheelie bins.Read
Local government publications are frequently held up to ridicule either for using 20 words where one will do, twisting the English language into all sorts of bureaucratic gobbledygook or simply being too dense for ordinary folk to follow.Read
Sci-fi series Star Trek introduced the idea of the mirror universe, a place where our doppelgängers are opposite and often evil, as in goatee beard-sporting evil, versions of ourselves.Read
In a shameless act of headline grabbing the local government secretary Eric Pickles published a list of 50 suggestions for councils to cut spending as he reduced grants to local authorities throughout the country.Read
This time last year there was a feeling that political change was on the way in Birmingham – the feeling that a referendum would deliver an elected mayor and that a Labour administration waiting in the wings would shake things up a bit.Read
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