The Star Chamber Podcast
Join Michael Clifford and Marcus Richards - alongside occasional leading guests - for insightful, engaging conversations about the world of local government. Each month, they delve into the key issues shaping the sector, explore its unique quirks and challenges, and share expert perspectives on how it all works behind the scenes. Whether you’re a seasoned local government politician or officer, or simply curious about how local government ticks, this podcast offers a fresh, informed, and occasionally witty take on the forces driving change across the sector.
Episodes
In this episode of The Star Chamber Podcast, we unpack the recent flurry of government announcements – the Spending Review, the Industrial Strategy, and the UK Infrastructure Strategy – and explore what they really mean for local government.
We discuss how authorities can respond to these evolving agendas to unlock investment, attract private capital, and drive long-term, place-based growth.
We’re also joined by our first guest, Pete...
In this episode of The Star Chamber Podcast, we unpack the fallout from the recent local elections before tackling the potential moral hazard of central government interventions in local authority debt. We then head north to UKREiiF to explore placemaking, investment, and how these themes tie into the evolving role of Combined Authorities - including a trip through time to Margaret Thatcher’s abolition of the GLC and her clashes wi...
Join Michael Clifford and Marcus Richards for a series of discussions on the world of local government! In their first episode, they talk about the medieval origins of the term Star Chamber, how Liverpool in the 1980s shaped the concept of Exceptional Financial Support and what mountaineers have to do with Local Government Reorganisation.
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