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With full disclosure banking could be a race to the top

Reforms to make banking competition work for consumers have reached an impasse. Do nothing and we can expect nothing to result, but even with Project Merlin – which was established by the four major UK banks (HSBC, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group) and hopes to improve stability and competition between banks – lending fell for Britain’s top banks in every quarter a year after its implementation.

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Placemaking must be framed by fairness and equity

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Risky business: how cutbacks are leading local authorities into ‘exotic’ waters

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Local authorities and housing associations must work together in tough times

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Analysis: From ‘civic’ to ‘civil’ society

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Sandwell: A new hospital at the heart of local economic change

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Black Country Make: Building a digital factory on a 1960s estate

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Understanding how debt problems change our behaviour is the key to better support

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Book review: Taking Power Back

We live in turbulent times. Post financial crash, we have had a prolonged depression and live through a seemingly endless period of austerity. In local government there are unprecedented cuts to local services. Coupled to welfare reform, we have growing social need and rising demand. Local authorities are under the cosh, pedalling hard with an ever diminishing and denuding set of local services. For those of us who believe in local government, these are cursed times.

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Do you have a dream?

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Housing – a multidimensional crisis

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Extending Right to Buy could kill community-led housing

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Marks out of Tenancy

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What’s the difference between John Bird and Camila Batmanghelidjh?

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Local areas should embrace English devolution – but on their own terms

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Gauging the true costs of affordable housing