I know of several examples of council staff saying that something is too important to be left to the academics".
Allen adds that while there are examples of council employers responding to the message, many are not.
Take these examples of council propaganda: "Middlesbrough set at the heart of one of Europe's busiest industrial areas"; "Newcastle's role as a major European centre"; "Manchester, served by one of the fastest growing airports in Europe".What all this seems to mean is that councils want their cities to have architecture to rival Barcelona's and prosperity to match Munich's.
Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund, the national fundraising charity for art, said that local authorities should look to the examples of councils such as Folkestone and Margate.
On the question of whether incinerators can block the recycling rates, he said there were examples of councils around the country that had become "stuck" at a certain recycling rate because of their commitment to incinerate at a certain rate.
"There are already many positive examples of councils doing things in different ways to improve care and support for local people, but we know more still needs to be done.
"There are some excellent examples of councils improving recycling rates – we will work with local authorities and industry to build on these successes and encourage best practice across the nation as part of our commitment to protect the environment for future generations".
Moore is more nuanced than that; unlike Harris, he offers a few quiet but stinging criticisms of her policies, for example on council house sales, which led to "the gradual build-up of a housing shortage which, in 1979, had not existed, and the stoking, for the future, of a housing bubble".
Lieutenant Colonel William Cochrane, the chief secretary of the Salvation Army in England and Wales, called on the councils involved to follow the example of Brent council in north-west London, which withdrew its bid to site a supercasino at Wembley stadium after overwhelming opposition to the plan from local residents.
This is the first known example of a council stopping payments to tenants who had already successfully claimed DHP.
