There is confusion over what will happen to the debts owed by Woking Borough Council (pictured) and Spelthorne Borough Council One of the two new unitary authorities confirmed for Surrey could be ...

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Brentwood Borough Council has backed a proposal to form five unitary authorities in Essex. This could result in Brentwood joining forces with Chelmsford City Council and Maldon District Council. The ...

On Nov. 8, 1787, a pamphleteer who wrote under the pseudonym Cato published one of the most prescient warnings in American history. Cato looked at the proposed Constitution and declared that it might ...

Here we go with another shutdown of democratic free speech by a POTUS and his inner circle consolidating power in pursuit of a unitary form of government controlling every aspect of American life from ...

The UK’s one year-old government ambitiously plans to modernize local government across the European nation by creating more unitary authorities. This will remove the existing twin layers of a county ...

As you explore different forms of governance, you’ll encounter the unitary system, a centralized approach where power flows from the national government. Unlike federal systems, unitary governments ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It all started with Richard Nixon. It was the summer of 1974, and Watergate was ...

The leader of Crawley Borough Council said there were economic benefits to forming a unitary authority with Reigate & Banstead Borough Council Two councils in West Sussex and Surrey are due to decide ...

Two council leaders in the South East have written to the government to propose that their authorities combine. Councillor Michael Jones, leader of Crawley Borough Council and councillor Richard Biggs ...