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 ...

Thurrock Council and Rochford DC have each produced a different four-unitary configuration for Essex, bringing the total number business cases for the government to consider to four. Last week Essex ...

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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Michael ends up finding himself trapped on the roof of his school with the Agents closing in on ...

The surest way to ruin a bipartisan dinner party is to say the words “unitary executive.” Liberals are likely to respond: “To give a president (especially one as capricious as Trump) total control ...

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 ...

In the past month, two federal judges have ordered federal agencies to reinstate thousands of federal employees, including those at USDA, decisions the Trump administration strongly disagrees with and ...