Residents have less than two weeks to express their views ahead of what is expected to be the biggest shake-up of local government in Hertfordshire in a generation.

From the whirlwind start of the second Trump administration through the war in Iran, Americans have been put to a very difficult task: How are they to make sense of this cascade of events? Last fall, ...

Celibacy used to be a religious relic; now it is a lifestyle choice. In a 2018 article for The Atlantic, Kate Julian reported on what she called a “sex recession.” In it, she cited multiple studies ...

It is said that anything worth doing then it should be done very well, it is therefore very unfortunate that the Celebration of the 68th and 69th Independence Day in 2025 and 2026 were done at Jubilee ...

In a blog post written for the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (Larac), waste consultancy experts Integrated Skills said efficiency ...

A trading arm of the authority, which serves more people than any other local council in the UK, has fired the starting gun ...

Cultivating a healthy sense of mutual obligations running two ways, between society and individual and between individual and ...

Some classic cars are fine three-course meals, giving gastronomic, physical and even spiritual sustenance at every sitting. Others are stylish little entrées or canapés: a pleasure to look at, very ...

Despite significant mathematical refinements, econometrics has shown the weaknesses of its logical underpinnings, primarily during economic turning points—financial crises, pandemics, and geopolitical ...

Whitehall has been called to rethink its devolution plans for Gloucestershire to avoid a "harmful hotch-potch". The county's three Lib Dem MPs have voiced fears that impending changes to local ...

When it does, we will all find out which other councils Test Valley has been paired with to create new, larger unitary authorities. As I have said before in this column, LGR is not a path I would have ...