Is the public sector trusted more than the private sector? Or vice-versa? Who should be trusted with public services? Is the profit motive more powerful than the public spiritedness? The truth is, it depends which example you look at, which service is concerned, and who is running it. One can provide pretty good arguments, evenly…

Following the London Assembly and Mayoral elections of May 2012 LCA’s political map for 2012 is now available to download from the publications page of our website. Our brand new political map of London, produced in association with London Councils, provides an update on the political landscape in the capital since our last map was…

I wrote in one of these columns three years ago that watching different parts of the public sector trying to talk to each other was rather initially amusing, but ultimately rather depressing. And guess what? Not much has changed. In local government and health in particular, the closer crunching together of these two worlds under…

Boris Johnson’s second term will be far tougher than his first The re-match is over. After another seismic ?battle in the capital? Boris Johnson defeated Ken Livingstone and has returned to City Hall. Boris’s victory bucked the trend of defeats on the same night for Conservative councillors the length and breadth of the UK and…