MPs say the Town Hall financial crisis is out of control. Jim reports on that, and a Downtown event which shows that councils and business increasingly want to work together for regeneration.
This week Martin and millions of other Americans prepare to pay their taxes… some will be in for a nasty surprise…
How much trouble is Rishi Sunak in? Could the Tories really give us our fourth prime minister in two years?
Do people want tax cuts or better public services? That may be a big issue at the election, but perhaps not, as Jim explains in his blog. He also pays tribute to Tony Lloyd and reports on the choice of his successor in Rochdale.
As politics takes centre stage in America, Martin takes a sideways glance at the characters and storylines shaping the US Presidential Election…
Is Sir Keir Starmer heading for a landslide or will the General Election be a close run thing? Jim reports on two major surveys this week that reached very different conclusions.
Jim is unimpressed with the sudden urgency ministers are applying to decades of post office injustice. He also looks ahead to a year of elections.
This week Martin casts an eye over the 2024 Presidential Election and looks at the unique way America picks its candidates…
In the first blog of 2024, Martin Liptrot looks at the year ahead in the US.
Jim gives us his winners and losers from a year which, he thinks, leaves
us with little to be optimistic about.
College football in the US has just had its biggest scandal since the last one. Martin looks at what is going on off the pitch in the billion dollar business in America’s Universities.
The Prime Minister has created a first class political crisis by staking the whole government’s credibility on the narrow issue of Stop the Boats according to Jim in his latest blog.
