Last week, the Institute spent a day out at the Built Environment Networking Airports Development and Future of Aviation conference at Manchester Airport’s Concorde Centre. There, under the wings of G-BOAC, the former British Airways flagship Concorde, we set out our stall and listened to experts from across the aviation industry discussing the post-covid reality. […]
Tuesday this week saw that State Opening of Parliament, the ceremonial occasion in which the Monarch (or in this case, her heir) formally opens the new parliamentary session by reading out a speech written by the Government about their legislative agenda. Although it serves primarily as a declaration of intent, for politics-watchers such as us
Planning for ANOTHER future- the Queen’s Speech 2022 Read More »
Congratulations on your election to your new seat of [Insert Seat Here], and welcome to the wonderful world of local government! We’re sure you’ll enjoy your stay- however long that’ll be (just a little joke, you’ll get used to it). Or perhaps you’re an old hand? Been in opposition for a while maybe, and now
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Last week, the Queen gave Royal Assent to the much-debated Health and Care Bill, completing its parliamentary process and making it into the Health and Care Act 2022. We wrote a lot during the debating phases of the legislation, and in a briefing paper highlighted where we thought the emergent issues might be. So, as
Just as I was beginning to worry that there was little to write about this week, imagine my joy when I stumbled upon this– a recently published technical consultation about how streets are named. Street names are an absolutely fascinating study (odonymy, for those who are interested), which can reveal an awful lot about an
Parliament has been full of eye-catching things recently. Unfortunately for us, most of that has not been related to consultation, but to the behaviour of politicians, and whilst we managed to find an angle on that before, this time we could do little but repeat that article verbatim. But the naughtiness of men and ministers
The Week in Parliament Read More »
Some of the last votes in the House of Lords before they join their Commons colleagues in recess were on the Report stage of the Election Bill, the Government’s flagship legislation purporting to boost election security and strengthen our democracy. Those who have been about for a while will be familiar with this legislation, and
The Government energy strategy that we wrote about last week has finally been pushed out into the wild, though the absence of the usual pdf copy suggests that work was ongoing on it late into last night. Much as expected, it’s heavy on nuclear, announces a new independent technical review being conducted by the British
At the beginning of July last year we wrote about Sheakh v London Borough of Lambeth, a challenge to Lambeth’s implementation of new low traffic neighbourhoods by way of both consultation and the public sector equality duty. In the original case, Mr Justice Kerr found for the Council on all grounds, but his decision was
Last night, the chief executive of Channel 4 sent an email to his staff. Its message was short, and not particularly sweet. The Government had decided to proceed with their plans to privatise Channel 4 and take it out of public ownership for the first time in the 40 years since Margaret Thatcher’s Government set
Last public servant out, turn off the signal- the privatisation of Channel 4 Read More »
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