All articles by Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

Mayor Ben Houchen and the “Houchenist” manifesto

The mayor of Tees Valley in the UK is implementing a new kind of Tory agenda that mirrors global economic shifts.

Spotlight poll: Pandemic response to post-Covid recovery – the view from local government

Ahead of local elections next month, Spotlight polled councillors across the country on Covid-19, economic recovery and party politics.

Among private renters, the housing crisis is a more pressing concern than Brexit

It’s now just 78 days until Halloween, the day when, if the Johnson-Cummings-Number 10 media machine are to be taken at…

A Century after radical leftists were elected to its city hall, Vienna’s social democratic base is slipping away

Karl Marx-Hof, a kilometre-long municipal apartment block in Vienna’s wealthy 19th district, was first named after the father of the…