Just one council may run services in a county in the west of England in a bid to simplify local government and cut costs. Councillors in Gloucestershire have been working on plans to merge the ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court seems likely to embrace "unitary executive" theory (UET) in its upcoming case in Trump v. Slaughter, at least in so far as that theory mandates that the president have the power to ...

Creating five new unitary authorities for Sussex would save £52.4m a year, Brighton & Hove City Council (BHCC) leaders have said. The council's proposal for restructuring councils includes expanding ...

Worcester City Council rejected the alternative vision of one unitary council for the whole county, at a meeting on Tuesday (September 2). Councillors expressed a preference for north and south ...

The "unitary business principle," is a rule that decides when a state can tax a company's income that is earned in more than one place. It helps separate what income can be taxed by a state and what ...

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...

Since April 7, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted President Trump emergency relief no fewer than 13 times. It has temporarily blocked lower-court orders that, for example, halted aggressive ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Trump’s indifference to the job is the modern incarnation of a problem that defenders ...