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The mirages served up by reforms shouldn’t deflect us from viewing localism as the answer

The coalition government is absolutely right to strive for localism. It’s just a shame it’s so out of touch with the way its reforms are playing out on the ground, says David Boyle

Open Public Services was a strange business. The rhetoric was spot on: choice, decentralisation, fairness, diversity, accountability – not so much the Five Giants that Beveridge warned us about, but the Five Mirages that never quite appear.

Communities Good Local Economics

After a century of tackling poverty one thing’s for sure: government must play a key role

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Reconciling communities through regeneration

Communities Good Local Economics Local Government

Love Your Streets

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

A bad marriage

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

The power of language to tell the story of place

Communities Good Local Economics

Coming out of the shadows

Communities Economic Development Finance Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Growth is as much about an area’s social capital as it is its local economy

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

The Bristol Pound won’t save our town centre

Not a lot happens in Bristol: one of the headlines on the BBC website over the weekend was ‘Bristol unaffected by snow falls’. Today we were treated to ‘crash lorry doesn’t fall in river’ which must have trended on Twitter within minutes. Amongst all the shock and horror one positive thing caught my eye: Bristol is to launch its own currency in May, imaginatively named the Bristol Pound or the £B.